Why would EK have to react to this accident?? They have been VERY proactive on the stabilized criteria front and, by and large, our crews do an excellent job!!
While you can't say it will never happen I believe the VAST majority of EK crews would have went around at 1000' but certainly by 500' when this crew was laterally off as well as vertically off (based on what the NTSB has said so far).
The comments regarding CRM are right on though!! I hope the cost cutting does not bring in non pilot (or non active pilot) instructors. The EK CRM course is the absolute best CRM I have seen and, in my opinion, probably an industry leader. ND, who runs it, is brilliant in his job and ,I hope, is not being hamstrung by new leadership.
This recent cost cutting is worrisome. EK has built a good system which they seem to be dismantling now.
The flying hour increase was the start of the narrow minded, short term cost measures.