The issue here gents is productivity. A family member of mine is a doc. He works 22 hour days sometimes. The days of big earnings and an armchair styled living is over. This holds true for all professions, tertiary or otherwise. So we look for other comforts. Like job security. EK offers that. Its no good standing in northern Scotland on a winters day insisting on a suntan. Reality needs to be checked and indeed accepted.
Perhaps some of us here have lived and seen the hey days but that’s what they were, the evolutionary absolutes of corporate dimensions dictate that a company such as EK has to play according to the rules dictated by financial survival. BA, AF, KLM have all seen an erosion in offerings, not to mention the North Americans and Australians. A banker in Canary Wharf has had a 20% reduction in earnings over the last ten years. All in the name of productivity in order to secure the future of said companies. So we are not alone.
May I ask that we dispense with the puerile name calling please.