Around high 40s of new Jets to be delivered to EK by end of next year!! Thats a LOAD of crew front and back. The company knows that the pilot brotherhood is small and close. If the company pays the drivers crap then we send the word out and at home people decide not to come, simple as that and the company CAN'T AFFORD not to have the drivers for their billion dollar deliveries.
Cabin crew selection, well they recruit from all areas on the planet where people are willing to do the C Crew job and will be pleased to get 3500AED a month here. It's market forces plain and simple.
SFS and Purser selection is by negative selection I agree. Some great crew have come and gone because of this incompetent policy of number of sick days taken as the primary attribute for the position. Having flown well over 2 decades, I can honestly say there are quite a few incompetent Purser and SFS crew down the back who could be replaced with competent crew who have been prevented gaining the position. What to do, incompetence breeds incompetence as we can see from the selection of these crew.
Regarding trainers in EK, if anyone has any complaints and is not a trainer then don't complain as you have no knowledge except rumours as to what goes on in the training department. The trainers do a thankless task and without the training checking going on there would be no airline. Those who are in the training department are working extremely hard to keep up with demands as others are too afraid to join the department, due to lack of competence or whatever other reason they come up with. The sooner the training department comes up to manning strength and more people are trained into the L + R seats the easier all our lives will become to help with the ever increasing demands from the company. If you want to work the same number of days in a month as a line pilot and take another reasonable salary for the same number of days at work, go apply, if not... no knowledge means no comment.
