Here's another interesting fact. Apart from the annual payrises that EK have given over the last decade, they also have 3% increments. Once you are a CN in CX we have 2% annual pay increments.
Ergo, just to keep up with EK increments CX will need to offer a 1% a year payrise from now on. Thats assuming EK don't have any more payrises again!
So whatever gets offered, remember to subtract 1% a year just to equate it with normal EK increments. EK has been giving annual payrises around 3-5%+ a year for the last few years so really CX would need to pay 4-6% a year to mark time and substantially more to actually recover lost ground since 2001.
Yeah I can see that happening - NOT.