To answer your question. I THINK the interest has dried up due to lack of postings on this site AND I have heard that the latest batch of American DEC's have....... en masse...... declined the course. (from a couple of Yank friends I have here) I never said I KNEW the interest had dried up, just wondering if its true.
To correct you again, I never said all American DEC's were jerks.
To correct you again, No one has asked me why i thought some weren't my type of people, but I will answer that now, since you asked.
Number 1..... Captain America............. nuff said
Number 2..... DEC's in sims who reject t/o's AFTER V1. Can't fly a NPA to save their soul. Extremely poor CRM. (yes i will agree this is second hand info but from reliable sources)
Number 3..... the most appalling RT
Number 4..... Hypocrits. Live their lives in relative comfort under the umbrella of some union, yet when it suits them......... come to EK and jump the seniority list
Number 5..... oddness, can't quite describe that properly but just a general feeling when chatting with some......... that they aren't your typical pilot.
And as i have pointed out in the past, it is just my opinion that we are receiving the bottom of the barrel at present. I highly doubt that the average American pilot is similar to Capt America or some of the other recent additions at EK. If you read into that properly, that is a compliment to the rest of America. And no, I don't automatically assume that a DEC, be he American or otherwise, is sub par. In fact, I know there are some great DEC's here, in spite of the fact that the policy is flawed.
I stand by my assertion that the DEC policy is detrimental to this airline. And I further believe that some of the recent DEC's would never have been selected at EK had they applied as F/O's in the past. Talk to any TRE or TRI and most will agree that the standard has been dramatically lowered over the past 2 years.
Anyhow, the point of my post was to determine if the rumblings of the transition upgrade policy being axed were indeed true. If it is true, then the future of this airline looks rather bleak from a pilots point of view. The infuriating part of it all is that none of this was necessary only a few years ago. This airline had a great bunch of guys to work with and I see that slowly being eroded with insane policies.
This is my venue to vent. I don't bitch at work and I don't join in the overall whinging. If you don't like my take on things, then fine. Feel free to join the few who I have offended here and slag away. I am more than willing to read sound arguments countering my POV and i am open minded enough to properly consider them. I truly HOPE i'm wrong regarding the level of DEC's, and for that matter F/O's we are receiving, but I have yet to read one fact that counters this.