Nice doesnt cut it in the ME. This is old scool management. Stick and carrot. The more stick you give the boys the more carrot you get for your retirement bonus. Then one day you are escorted from your office and kicked out to retire with the other ex EK directors...
I wish him welcome, and if he does just one good thing for the pilots he will have more than the others. Welcome...
I dont blame them. I would probably do the same. Sad but true. Its a question of which side of the fence you sit on...