It doesn't matter. No one from the states who is in anyway employable will even consider EK. If the majors were hiring 5-7 years ago, none of us would be here now and almost all of us are trying to leave. It's not that EK is so bad, which it is now, it's that it wouldn't even be on their radar as a possibility. They won't get DECs because anyone with command time is already halfway up the seniority list where they already are. They won't get FOs because those guys have so many options at home with better pay, work rules, and quality of life. Throw in the good old American ignorance and this place might as well be ISIS central. No one will consider moving their family to the middle east for 8 days off, questionable vacation policy, zero job security, no union, and probably no future. Also, the pilots have been brain washed to hate the ME3 so it's really just a waste of time.