If you look at the history of some of our posts about EK, those who used to be quite positive about the company are now quite negative. That is the trend among the total pilot group. We have a great group of pilots for the most part and it is such a shame that the company has decided to take the low road rather than the high road on cost neutral quality of life issues just because they have control freaks and greedy money hungry pigs as managers/VP's.
If carriers (Asia/Turkey/BKK) start to accept current and experienced wide body F/O's for applicants as DEC's, I believe you will see how unhappy people at EK really are. Currently, every airline is requiring 500 to 1000 hours of wide body command time within the last 6 months to even apply for a DEC position.