Yet, once again I found one point in your post that was clearly wrong. It HAS NOT always been in the OMA that DEC's could be hired ahead of suitable F/O's. The OMA explicitly stated that only if no suitable F/O's were already working here, would EK resort to hiring DEC's. Yet they hired DEC's in spite of disregarding their own policy.
Yes that's true, it isn't what I thought you meant.