What all you gentlemen seem to have forgotten with all your tech talk is that the pilots did what they were taught in ground school and in the sim. We here in EK are not allowed to think, or use years of airmanship, we are told to do it that way, and if you don’t you will be fired!! In the old days we tried to learn by others mistakes (if they were around to tell us). These pilots now realize that they were taught the wrong technique, we should all learn by this not sack them. In the old days your chief pilot was a buffer between you and management, and would hold your hand when needed, that’s what he gets paid for, not this one! Next time you get stuck behind an EK aircraft that is unable to comply with an ATC request for speed on approach, please don’t think bad of us, we are only doing as per SOP’s to protect our jobs. This company does not have the memory to remember what happens when pilots “work to rule” because they are too frightened to deviate from SOP’s. Which incidentally have been rewritten more times than I care to remember? These are hard times out here, please be gentile with us.