Amazing the utter crap that gets spoken. I always wonder what the agendas of the authors are. There was the if we whinge DECs will be cancelled, if we whinge we'll stop people coming and get a payrise and then we had the real whingers that probably had valid reasons.
Having spoken to most of the guys that have left, they have almost universally left not because of Ek but because of Dubai. There are a couple of guys that I know that have gone back to Virgin pissed off at EK but most that have left would have stayed if they could have either commuted or based.
Pretty good first post.
big group of bad apples running the companny
I don't think that is even close to the truth. The problem with EK management is that they have expanded so rapidly that a lot of managers have gone on past their level of competence. In addition there is the perception that there seems to be delegation of responsibility from the very top without the authority to fix it.
What are my guesses for the future:
1. The guy at the top will eventually go and then there will be a change in ethos.
2. They will recruit lower experienced guys to fill the seats
3. They might go for a payrise (at last resort) to attract experience (DECs again?).
4. WHen the guy at the top has gone all the options: jumpseats, basings and commuting will be back on the table.
So there you go, my agenda is that I'd like EK to succeed but I wouldn't say no to a payrise and I'd like more people to come so we all have to work less. EK will always do the minimum necessary and will be penny wise and pound foolish but as the jump into the big airline league they'll end up just like all the rest.
Ghost