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Your post is lucid and has some value, if this so called “slip” by the EK training department is indeed based on an Airbus memo and would be an isolated one.
That is unfortunately not the case, as any investigation that digs a bit deeper would/have most certainly find out.
The key issue is that EK is loaded with money and exploded since 1991.
The Arabs looked for some OPS managers and have hired the worst they could find. The only excuse they possibly have is that their hands were tight on their back.
To a certain extend it's their (the arabs) own fault, since they do not accept any critism and are vulnerable to sweettalking.
Maybe you forget the incident about one year ago (also widely discussed on PPrune) that led to a dramatic change in the recruitment policy; a change initiated by no one else that HH himself.
The worst thing one can do, is to put a lot of money in incompetence as that’s about the same as pouring fuel into a fire.