3. If EK treats us poorly, they KNOW we will leave in three years. Other joiners are more tied to the place. We are not the answer to their problem.
8th Jul 2011 18:28
And that right there is the problem. If you don't go then EK has to raise the conditions to keep and attract pilots, with you they don't because they know you are leaving in 3 years. You don't see it as your issue buts that's because you are going to be the problem. By helping to keep EKs crewing costs down, you increase the issue of operating costs in Australia trying to compete with EK. After 3 years you go home to find that you don't have a job, or that your conditions are crap all because the airline has had to compete with EK at there lower rate.
I have no dramas with an LOA to go and try something else out for a while, or to help start up an airline in a part of the world with little or no talent, however a mass LOA like this just screws the industry for the rest of us, and ultimately for you.