Max,
My comments on degrading recruitment doesn't state anything concerning your ability or professionality. This was just a remark on recruitment, lack of pilots in there and standards which seem to go down big time.. (just ask some of the trainers..)
I'm sorry if you felt attacked personally, and I take the complete blame if you took offence.. I should have known better:
Never assume that a general completely non-offensive remark will not offend someone of a different culture or with a different background... I've been flying EK for a year now, and that is exactly one of the things that takes the fun out of flying with some guys.. you have to roll your tongue 5 times, count to 10 and then think again over what you were about to say, because it might offence the chief... Those are the flights I don't like to much..
Then again, most of the time I fly with people who are open-minded, who are clever enough not to take offence to a general remark and who have enough humour to understand I joke or a 'tongue-in-cheek' remark when one is told.. I know in which category you belong... (apologies again...
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