EK plans you and expects you to go in discretion, thanks to guys like them who just do everything to please EK.
Thanks to them nothing gonna change and EK just to continues to operate like that.
We had a similar incident on a JFK flight were 3 pilots went over 18 hours, on another JFK flight a 3 man crew refused to go into discretion because crew control didn't come up with a 4th pilot, the flight left then 6 hours later after they found another full crew.
keep recovering