Just as an exercise, where exactly would the unhappy people like to go to. Who still has an old style roster with alll the lifestyle perks from the past.I'm sure that the reality in alot of companies in terms of work load isnt much different.The odd , and very sort after ,dinosaur airline job not withstanding.
Badly rostered longhaul, badly rostered lowcost, badly rostered charter , its all the same result, knackered, zombie, operating in a stae of fatigue worse than any drink/fly limit.. I get the impression that Ek has worn out the honeymoon period and the guys there are now suffering the same levels of fatigue and lifestyle that a summer charter operator suffers, relatively speaking...number of sectors etc. Ba newhires on 5 or 6 east coast bullets ( 4 of them weekends) a month is pretty hard going as well.Charter drivers on a mix of longhaul bullets and short mediium haul , day after day. Sharm there and back 12 hrs not level 2 means you can be back in the saddle in 12 hrs for another or straight onto a night group. Its all the same !!!!. I think it just seems worse at ek because of the past high standard of living and lifestyle.
I think its a bad case of grass is greener , with a few exceptions where you cant get in anyway.
Not looking for a row just curious where they would go with a dubai rating without reverting back to the sort of enviroment they were probably hoping to leave behind,but has now caught up with them. All enviroments change, but none more obvious than the change in expat life in general and the airline business in general.
So where is the nirvanna these days.