Please don't compare US Air to EK. US Air was very extended for a long time and a little out of their league. EK has slave labour with very little fuel costs. Typhoon you might still be happy but you are essentially a DEC (who probably deserved it by the way) that did not have to live on a FO salary for long and in your mind you are still comparing what US Air has now (nothing) to what EK has now (a lot). AA, BA, CX are still very far out in front of us. Your mileage might very well indeed vary.