For decades past and, hopefully for Emirates F/Os, for many years to come, there have been a heap of well renowned airlines who have and continue to hire DECs without all or in some cases even any of
Cerberus's list of
relevent experience.
And their doing just fine, thankyou.
Stop grasping at pathetic, tenuous straws to try and justify the great and noble cause of upgrades.
As it should, Emirates has done and will do dozens and dozens of upgrades so stop whining.
If there any F/Os who as
WK puts it :
are p1ssed off is due to the bullsh1t that's raining down from above!! Plus the fact that we're bailing out A FEW - (minority) of these wonderful DEC's when they are being paid almost twice as much as we are!!
........then just resign, and go get your precious upgrade somewhere else leaving the position for someone who will appreciate it.
Big Hug now.