furbpilot
This has nothing to do with balls.
If you live in this part of the world, you will quickly learn that figuratively holding a gun to ones head and making a demand is not how to bring results. EK and airlines in the Middle East as a whole, will never ever be seen to have been brought to its knees by any part of their workforce. They would happily throw cash down the drain to a point in order to save face. That's what its all about in the Middle East and yes it is childish.
Lastly, the public easily forgets it's moral conscience when it comes to flying and buying most goods in fact. Such moral conscience momentarily vanishes when we reach for our credit card.
Airlines have had striking pilots and will continue to do so. The travelling public would perhaps have far less empathy for our plight here at EK, since most of the public can't see past the finely tuned
PR machine and the tax free salary.