And just where would my kids live, Big Geordie? - Pathetic.
EK moves closer to a bachelors airline, like the miserable workers in the labor camps. With all the frustration and personal problems that ensue.
1. Leaving your loved ones back home for 6 to 12 months (exactly what they are suggesting now with their c*#k up in the housing dep) is not only detrimental to your morale, it is simply unaffordable!! How can you pay the appartement/house back home with the miserable pay as a starting FO, considering that a great part of it is supposed to be free housing??
2. All those who chose to leave company accomodation are left in the dump. The allowance is lightyears behind the market and will never be adjusted even close to what EK themselves have to fork out for their rented villas. They might think "their problem", but it was done mainly due to family issues (school proximity vs. daily traffic terror or the missus who confronted you with leaving this acco or yourself) and not due to snobbish reasons. So lots of these folks are now confronted with the choice of a negative financial worksheet or having to leave the pit. Again this concernes mainly families, leaving behind only bachelors who can afford to stay.
3. Some have found the solution in commuting. Get into a cheap outfit here and have the family in a decent house back home. The missus' frustration with the pit, the schooling cost and traffic woes are almost sorted out then and being able to get home for a decent amount of days a month suited a lot of us. AAR and the long range clown have just ruined that aswell. Nobody was fooled by the clowns comment, we all know it is jealousy of the ingnorant and incompetent who lead to this. And for the third time they hit those with family.
A bachelors airline will bring in huge instabilty. They will see. Allthough we know that they abolished the SEY layovers only for monetary reasons, their argument that too many of us got drunk down there and that the hotels complained and that's why they were forced to do this does not only expose their ridiculous state of mind, but might indeed point to a future problem: The one they will get with frustrated bachelors.
