No - not ironic at all, they were the terms I ( and many others) were offered at interview. They had been in the FOM for quite some time without complaint.
My gripe is that I would have expected any company to honour the promises made at interview if not, I would at least have hoped that they would have informed of the impending change to the FOM to allow me to make the decision whether to come or not, sadly, then as now, there is very little integrity demonstrated by anyone in the EK management chain.
Oh, and by the way I left EK some while ago...