A little bird told me that someone in HR recruitment did a projection and it would seem that there is the likelyhood that non accelerated upgrades may take as long as 5 years and not the 3 as stated by our exulted SVPO at the pilots meeting. APPARENTLY he/she was moved upwards/sideways soon after.
Before you start it is only rumor, and I am not sure how many pilots this will affect but I wouldn't be surprised if it were true to a point.
People, please do not try and compare time to upgrade with your company to EK, a lot of people have come here for the quick upgrade, and yes I know things can change, however............
The DEC suituation is a joke according to a lot of the TRI/E's doing the training, the levels of ability being shown by SOME are v.low.
Apparently a lot are failing selection only for the upper management to overrule recruitment. This has been prob done for several reasons but I think this one is they most likely. Bring in an FO=1batch of training, upgrade the FO=2nd batch of training, replace upgraded FO=3rd batch of traiing.................................1xDEC=1 batch of training= money saved=FO's v.pissed off=low morale.
Now if EK had no suitable FO's to upgrade fair enough, this is NOT the case there is a wealth of experience and ability within the FO ranks who are more than capable of upgrading.
ps. I am not an FO & 411a spare me your rhetoric.
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