Hey 'Gonadzola', pull your head out of your arse please and stop being so rude to your fellow professionals (who whether you like it or not do have more authority than you -- thank god).
I've just wasted 10 minutes reading all your vitriol.
I think you just have to accept that EK (and I'm sad to say this) probably has the least sociable CC of any airline (save a couple in the far east). This is now the 4th airline I've worked for and have never come accross a bunch of people so unwilling to speak to one another let alone the guys in the front.
I did a 9hr flight to MNL recently with a top bloke sat next to me (both of us mid 30's BTW so not too old and crusty yet), and despite being friendly and jovial in the briefing and inviting the crew up to the flight deck be it for a chat or a rest, no-one NOT ONE person from the crew bothered to come up to the FD during the flight.....The L1 did her duty by checking on us every 20 mins BY INTERPHONE, and I brought my dinner in myself after taking a slash. To rub salt into the wound, the L1 (while sat on her jumpseat reading 'OK magazine!!) even had the audacity to say to me (on one of my piss breaks) 'you guys must get really bored in there sometimes'!! We had a sniff of each others armpits-wasn't that, so I'm sorry to say the only conclusion we could make was that there was a bunch of completely miserable tossers AFT of the FD door, that have no concept of what its like to be locked in a tiny room considerably smaller than a convicted murderer's prison cell for hours on end.
Before you respond with the 'but you guys dont know what we do down the back, we're soooooo busy' nonsense, I'm married to crew and I've worked for other airlines (unlike most of you), so I' do have a concept of 'what you do', and I cannot accept that on a 9hr flight you can't spare 10 MINS to come and see the drivers especially when most of the pax are asleep!
Some of you should try working for a UK Charter airline, then you'd know what hard work really was: 360 smelly 'chav' pax in an A330, 10 crew, 11hrs 30mins to Mexico from London, NO REST, NO BIDDING SYSTEM etc etc. yet they still find time to come and say 'Hi', and despite the 14hr total duty dealing with 'Package Holiday Punters' (imagine dealing with Manchester type pax every flight, and you'll have an idea, ie smoking in the lav's, punching each other, and throwing up/pissing in the galley (sad but true))---still the crew turn round and say 'right guys, where we off to tonight?' NOT 'oh I'm really tired I did a night DOH 3 days ago', while standing in the hotel reception after a 7hr working day to MUC!!!!!!!! 'Kin stunning......
So to reiterate, no-one in my previous airlines thought I was unapproachable (least of all my missus), it would seem most of you are unapproachable towards us, but perhaps more strangely TOWARDS EACH OTHER!!!!
Having had my rant, and got a few things off my chest that have been brewing for a while now, I would like to point out that not all EK crew fit the above 'chip on the shoulder towards FD' profile, indeed I've had a good few layovers and a laugh with crew here - one which stands out was when 2 girls came up to me the next morning after a top night out and said 'jeez, we haven't had that much fun or laughed that much in ages', well perhaps you should take the time to get to know us a little on a flight, and who knows maybe you wont spend 23hrs staring at the inside of a hotel room by yourself even if you are 'playing the invisible banjo'
(think about it girls, it does look like it, and we know you all do it).
Sorry for the long post, needed to redress the balance towards mini baby bell(end) rant over.........