Back again, and unashamedly cup half empty about EK.
It comes back to relativity: relative to where you are coming from.
EK can offer some people the job they really want or become the rut they didn't want. You don't have to look too far in the past to see that today EK is far from the pearl it once professed to be but just another airline, no better & perhaps no worse.
EK 'is' failing to attract the new pilots it needs and is in danger of losing the pilots it already has. 160 aircraft by 2010 = 1500 more pilots = 250 ish per year....on current terms and with strong competition from other airlines, where are they going to come from?
If you didn't make it into EK I sympathise only to the degree that I wish I hadn't either...the future is bright, the future is probably elsewhere...you may well be better off.