Sounds like a recruiting tool, nudge,nudge, wink, wink , no guarantees, but !!!!!
We used to have guys with integrity in recruitment,what happened.
It's almost a pity that the newbies don't realise that there are 1500 guys ahead of them in the queue for the mythical basing.....same as recruitment still promising, fingers crossed, that it's still 3 years to command...............................
I think that even with overseas basings not much would change with resignations...probably because at the end of the day you would still be working for EK.
Do we really think that EK would increase the salary scales for London, Paris, New York, etc, etc to cover the taxation issues, schooling, housing, medical, pension,,,and the list goes on...Ek is a low cost carrier in the cheapest sense imaginable.
I for one think that there is more chance of AAR munching down a bacon sandwich with a nice cold stubby at the next pilots meeting than there is of basings on a reasonable contract. So I for one wont be holding my breath.