Well said Shake, I agree with everything you have said, I would not advise a friend to come here, an enemy maybe, but that would be nasty!!!
I never thought I would miss the company I left in the UK, but hey you live and learn.
I never thought I would hate night flying so much, every duty this month has finished in Dubai between 5.30am and 6.30am, so far I have not had more than 3 hours continuous sleep in the last week.
Allowances downroute--EK avail themselves of Airline discount before we see the money, I think they have misunderstood the term Airline discount!!
Almost every layover I have done I have had to use my own money to subsidise EK, and no it's not always the bar-bill, chance would be a fine thing.
If i could return to my old job , I would jump at it ,both feet first,but T's and C's there have changed for new starts. Such is life.
So freespeed if you want to feel trapped , I am stuck here because of the bond, and the bond is in US so even that is more than I budgeted for.
You will also sit in the right hand seat until they run out of DEC's .
The DEC guys I have flown with are a breath of fresh air, experienced, competent and not yet sucked into to the EK way.
If you have had a command for any lenght of time you will probably hate sitting sitting in the RHS for any length of time.
Only little things but it will get to you, it gets to me, and I am usually a tolerant sort of guy, well some of the time , well OK not very often......
If I knew then what I know now, I would have joined Easyjet.
Before you make any life changing decision take of your Rose tinted RayBans, I wish I had...........
Some of the Ek posters on PRune have an agenda, so it can be hard to work out what is what.Some of the things here are OK,Dubai is a nice place to live ,it's just that some of our guys confuse that with EK being a great company , not the same thing. London is a nice place to live, that does'nt make Ryanair a good company just because they base you there.!!!!
Memo to me --- steam vented and relax.
