and relax ladies!
The avalanche of FCI/FCNs, the grasping at straws by managers who have not moved an EK aircraft one solitary CENTIMETER, and the propaganda you are inundated with on a daily basis via the management-by-email portal, need to be taken in the context in which they are issued.
We all know that when it comes to our professional standards and sensibilities, the best person we can rely upon at EK is the professional pilot(s) sitting to the right/left/behind us in the pointy end of the high-speed aluminum tube.
Let them issue their random edicts, let them prattle on, let them show how totally impotent, craven, and completely out of touch they are. It is of no consequence.
Utilize your fellow crew members as you best see fit. Take care of each other, fly safely, and most of all, try and have some fun. We're flying jets (really big and cool looking ones at that). This is something the great un-winged masses hold in total respect, awe, and in the case of EK management, malignant envy.
I totally agree that we are dealing with individuals who either have lost the plot, or were never really worthy of their positions of authority and influence.
.....But.....
Be that as it may, we have only ourselves to rely upon. So don't let management drive even the tiniest of wedges between us.
In the words of Rufus: "BE EXCELLENT TO EACH OTHER!"
Take care of the folks in back who put everything they have, or ever hope to have, in your skilled hands, and enjoy this ride for what it IS, not what it should/could be.
Stand Fast Gentlemen! I am proud to be in the ranks amongst you!
Semper Fi,
ANFA out..
