I hope these are not the twilight years for EK.
Why would you bother hoping for that? With your seniority you can ride out just about any catastrophe that befalls them including a 50% contraction and still get paid.
The "cheap is expensive" rules certainly didnt come into play with the world's best, world's flashiest, biggest, blingiest, goldest, baggiest uniform issue. After pant legs tearing, see-through shirts, name tags falling off the pins, wings falling off the shirts, belt buckles turning from "gold" to silver, !!!!ty shoes no one wears and those ridiculous aussie hats...... At $590 per fully-outfitted pilot it was a steal. The cheapest uniform outfitting ever and not a single complaint!
We look so good I can't imagine why they haven't put a 50m high pilot poster next to the 19yo cabin crew on the HQ carpark wall in all his fat-assed glory. One of the pud-gripping posers already proudly featured on the walls in the training school would fit the bill! Jesus where do they find those willing tossers???