Could it be the first sign of too low experience when joining? Just reciting the FOM has little to do with airmenship and just exposes the interrogators incompetence.
Could it be the first sign of not enough trainers? Just outsourcing the training does not seem to help .......
Could it be the first sign of too many hours but not enough manoevers for FOs with the ULR flying? Just wait until the FOs will HAVE to do the rare landing and they'll just shift the problem to the LH seat .......
Could it be that they have to reassess the numbers, as some very disturbed pax-friends of one of our top-shots seem to have discovered that for quite a while enroute the only skipper is burried behind 300 Y-pax who will very readily and politely let him pass during a decompression or smoke in the cabin......
(Apparently TC is not happy with that aswell, allthough he is the architect of this tragedy, as HE ordered to change the location of the bunk!!!)
This might call for a increase of skippers, but it will take a lot of brainstorming for EK to discover that and might end up with more DECs, as they think this is the faster and cheaper way......
It starts biting them!