They have used Alteon and did not care for the product.
Concur.
Not knocking the new FOs, but I think 99% of them would agree 100% with
fatbus's comment. It's just that having done all their sim training with trainers who know nothing first hand about EK SOPS and procedures, they start their line training with little to no idea of what's expected of them, and the poor bloody training captains are given far too few sectors to squeeze a trained FO out the other end of the sausage machine. There's a huge difference between dealing with a monocultural group of trainees all from a very similar background to the incredible mix of nationalities and backgrounds EK employs today.