Just to educate those of us not personally familiar with life/work in your part of the world, would an EK WB captain, even if he could, really want to leave that post to be a DL new-hire FO on reserve (probably) in NYC...on an MD88 or maybe even an E190...working for peanuts compared to the EK pay ?
And the agreement is a "tentative" agreement, subject to membership ratification so some tweaking (maybe even "twerking") may occur.
Just as a point of interest, IIRC, the MD88 CA pay in 2003 was $229/hr. If you put that in an inflation calculator just for a ballpark howgozit, it becomes $294. The TA's end-rate for the same airplane is $251, still well below the inflation-adjusted 2003 pay rate. If this same holds true for other equipment, the pay is sorta OK but not all that great. I don't consider profit sharing, or the promise thereof, a legit part of pay rates.