Hi!
If EK is to avoid a MASSIVE crew shortage, they will HAVE to improve the T&Cs of the current pilots, to keep them at EK.
Just filling the new pilot seats, in today's current aviation upturn, in conjunction with the massive downturn in the numbers of pilots now being produced in the US, will be difficult. If EK can't keep the pilots they have, look for LOTS of planes to be sitting idle for lack of crews, down the road.
cliff
LFW