I have heard that they will be looking for DEC very soon....
They always have. they always will.
The difference this time is that they'll be targeting the guys who work for the Majors and have the relevant experience in truly global operations.
3 years ago they got their fingers burned by recruiting a small number of DEC's with no true experience outside N.America and Europe and (unfairly?) didn't give them the required training or preparation for such a situation. I know a few of them didn't make it through the training, and a number of those that did were subsequently demoted (even fired) due to some incidents.
Unfortunately the onus is on YOU as a DEC, and you're expected to know everything there is to know about every type of flying we do here, even with no previous experience of the sort of routes that EK flys... there is NO support for even the smallest of slip-ups unfortunately.
I wonder if there will be an improvement to the package significant enough to pull in a few experienced 777 guys from BA...? I'm sure ultimately that's what they're after. The days of getting a DEC on a 777 with 10,000 hours domestic
short-haul only experience are in the past unfortunately.
Still, will be tough to find the right guys with the way they've tarnished their reputation here on Pprune...!
