Jack,
I dont think 80% gave up commands to come here. Most guyes I know came because their old company folded, or were about to. I think only DragonAir can offer a faster command. Be it 3 or 4 years. I find it unfair that they wont offer cross fleet transferes, because some guyes will be caught out.
Logic would dictate that the 3 years had to stop some day. To double the fleet from 20 to 40 aircraft is not to hard to do in 3 years. To go from 100 to 200 is! Eventually the crisis that hit most airlines is a rising market will hit EK. Lack of pilots. For that to happen here a serious startup airline would have to open in either OZ or canada, where a large part of our collegues come from.
Being an expat airline linked to the USD obviously gives us grief, but thats hardly EKs fault. But never the less ( is that one word?) it is a factor when summing up the pros and cons. Personally I will hang around sometime more. But would I come down today....only if I was stuck in the RHS of a crab plane or lost my job... Make up your own mind, but remember the overall majority is happy here, and the minority spends time bitching to a dead computer.