More than likely, Tail Rota, by hiring more DEC's.
This policy is called, keep the complainers in the RHS, where they right and properly belong.
Now, you may not like my suggestion, and I truly expect that you might not, but OTOH, I suspect you are not in management, either.
Many line pilots believe THEY could manage flight ops or training properly (to say nothing of recruitment), but past experience with several other carriers has proven this idea to be quite the opposite.
Co-pilots especially believe they 'have seen it all' or, 'know it all' but this also has usually proved to be highly unlikely.
Co-pilots are there to do as they are told...possible safety of flight issues excepted.
EK management apparently has come to know this quite well, so the present policies are unlikely to change in the near term.
As the world turns...
