Excuse me but someone hired at EK 5 years ago is now at what? 3,500 to 4000 hours in the airplane, flying under their system, familiar with the procedures and these guys have gone thru what? 5 to 10 training events (don't know if F/O's train every six months or yearly at EK) if these guys are not passing their assessments for command, that is an indication of a systemic training problem, not what they flew before they came to EK, if these guys were really that weak as pilots, how on earth they pass their initial training then?
I suspect that EK is suffering from the common illness of unprecedented growth, training is not keeping up with the demand and the quality of training is degraded as a result