The word from NY TRACON is they treat Emirates the same as they treat Korean, China Southern and Air China. Not a very good measure to be judge by for sure.
Lets be honest, an increasingly large proportion of our colleagues display levels of airmanship commensurate with the stereotypes mentioned. I was in the US last month and as part of the augmenting inbound crew I sat there and was embarrassed as a the PM managed to make a complete horlicks of their taxi clearance by missing hold short and crossing calls, all whilst befuddling the controller with unintelligible and nonsense read-backs.
Having said that, the PM was the operating Captain, what chance has the F/O if the commander can't even do the basics properly?
I don't blame the NY TRACON one bit.