... the company and these fellows are going to end up in a !!!! storm of recrimination.
Believe me I would enjoy a little pleasure seeing EK get its face slapped as the company is run barbarously but I think these guys are tilting at windmills in their Quixotic quest...
I think there's a misguided element of "entitlement" within this alleged suit.
I reckon the company has every right to offer upgrades within a fleet - it's cost effective after all. If this means that some FOs get command before others, so be it. There are transition upgrades available after all. There is no observable correlation between seniority and offers of anything at this company. Everything is fluid and negotiable... it's the spirit of the place. Dubai is full of hustlers, whores and heretics... everyone preachin' their own brand of selfishness... wether its at the traffic lights, in line at the gas station, or at the mall... it's the "me first" culture of region.
This line of thinking is the kind of thing that just never ends, with one group
always able to say they have been "disadvantaged". It's the kind of peevishness encouraged in minority rights oriented societies... Everyone co-opts the language of the disenfranchised to advance their cause... "discrimination" is the flavour of the day... it's a load of crap sometimes though.
EVERYBODY KNOWS the company lied, (was lying), when verbal statements about the time to command where made at interviews and upon joining during initial transition training. Anyone who took the word of any recruiter/TRI/TRE etc... was just foolin' themselves. The company
does pay DECs differently than internally upgraded Captains... what to do, what to do?
Everybody knows the good guys are
never first just better.
good luck
k-o-t-s