FAQ’s:
- Why does the owner of EK get 25% more benefit share and the employees a generous 60% less, compared to last year?
Answer: Because the poor owner, the governement of Dubai, had to pay more for fuel.
- Who gets the profit of higher fuel prices?
Answer: The same poor governements.
- Why don’t the employees get a 15% salary increase?
Answer: Because the relentlessly bitching employees may very well work for the governement but are by no means governement employees.
Conclusion:
The slightly reduced profit-tickling into one pocket is more than compensated by the icrease into the other one. Inbetween lie the perpetual local hollowness and shortcomings. These are mostly used for their pathetic “mine is bigger than yours” contest with other middle eastern protagonists (I’m talking about airlines, mind you!).
Prediction:
Observing this childish arrogance, creating fast mounting frustration among EK employees, and looking at the mutual slot-, pilot-, f/a- and instructor-snatching among local airlines, I can imagine the astounded looks of european managers (LH,AF,BA) not believing their luck that the fiercest threats to them are caught in macho-self-destruct mode.
Rumour:
As this is a rumour network and the above seems by no means a satire but very real, I can’t help but setting out the rumour that TC must be on BA’s payroll.
and there's still the beach.......