BYMONEK
You sound bitter ..... but your DEC witchhunt is a double-edged sword.
You write:
"Whilst we have most Captains here with only 3-4 years, it's more than enough time to understand the Company culture and 'how things work".
Well the skipper in JNB had just that and unfortunately stuck to some of it too closely (god knows what would have been written if it had been a DEC....).
You were talking about a quality issue of somewhat 7 years spent as FO's in classic carriers before moving left. Agreed. What about some 6000h-FO's from regios that move over after 3 years on WB-FO in this region? Are they good enough just because "trained" by EK?
The issue about such incidents as in LHR have nothing to do with DEC's or low (wrong) hour-FO's. It's about culture in EK. The authorities (not necessarily the local one, i doubt it could), the owners (unfortunately there's about only HHSMo that has the ...... for it) and the public need to wake up and realise that with mangers like AAR and TC such blind following of SOP and directives will initially lead to more equally dumb incidents and finally to even more tragic ones.
Let's focus on THAT, please.