Until SMA got smart or found something better.
The question should be how many pilots at EK are truly happy? I know a lot put up with the ****e because they have nowhere else to go or have come from a worse place. Some have to be medicated to tolerate the Sand not to mention how many pill popping pilot wives there are running around Dubai. Some are even dellusional but to each their own.
When the truth gets out it hurts despots that occupy the Middle East. We all know who they are and what censorship they employ; corporations or governments it is all the same.