Just because they are legal is no recommendation to me. It may satisfy the insurance companies, until there is a prang and then watch them squeal.
Hull premiums will simply be increased for carriers like EK if an expensive prang happens, and life will go on.
EK pilots need to understand that...in the pilot availability market of today, experienced Commanders and First Officers are available for employment today, and I am quite sure that the HR department at EK has a stack eight feet high.
This of course in no way mitigates some of the problems that EK pilots have with their company now, however...the company can rightly say...if you don't like it, leave.
The ONLY way that pilots will get the companies attention is for flights to be delayed (or cancelled) on a regular basis, for lack of crew members...and this is unlikely to happen due to the aforementioned seriously large stack of applications on file.
Short of trainers, you say?
The company will simply make some up, or have the ability of hiring from outside.
In either case, the present EK pilots are dealing from a position of weakness, and quite frankly I suspect that the company simply does not care.
Thinking of saying goodbye to EK going to Korean possibly?
Keep in mind that Korean has their very own set of rather large problems...the phrase 'frying pan to fire' applies, without a doubt.