I did! they where quite nice actually. I wrote them my reasons and they replied saying that if I ever wanted to apply again I could do it. With the job maket doing well in europe... centralwings, easy, ryan, vueling, airberlin, etc... even air france is posting on flightinternational for pilots... EK just isn`t good enough. all these airlines are paying as much or even more than EK and with social security included. Even more now with the euro at 1.6 dollars. The only advantage with EK? The chance to fly a 777 or 380... but once seated on the flightdeck airplanes do all feel the same. so I`m still home hapilly flying the A320.