Payscale, actually, there are more trainers in EK then there are pilots at most medium sized airlines, so in my opinion there's nothing wrong with talking about the eroding conditions here.
A friend of mine has been a TRE for quite a while on the 330/340 fleet. He was scheduled to go over to the 380 in february, which was more then a year after his same seniority line captains went over. Just before his course started it was delayed again (he already had his 380 manuals course folder etc..). His course was then delayed and he had several course dates since, ranging from june up to august. Last news is that all the trainer courses for 330 to 380 have been cancelled - just have a look at the master trainers list.
On that same list you will also notice that despite a letter with the new rules for training rostering and pay because we are overstaffed, we are still training new TRI-AO's. Where is the logic in that?
The only thing I can conclude from that is that they will indeed move to a training pay per training duty, no monthly pay anymore. Imagine the cost savings for training department.. the only thing a trainer will cost, even when his duties are extremely badly distributed along the year and among the trainers is his few days of trainers/core course per year which he has to attend, but for which he obviously isn't paid since he is a student in those days and not a trainer..
Off topic: with apparently 80 guys confirmed to go from 777 to 380, who isn't expecting pilots being forced from 330 to 777 once we get 2 - 3 new Boeings per month next year?