I must admit I don't see anything changing, be it in 2 years or 10. The problems of high hours and no leave have been around for over a decade. It now, however, touches a greater percentage of the pilot group.
Ek consider how things are now the norm. If they change something for the better, it would need to be paid back somehow, or else we would be considered stealing. They steal 10 hrs of productivity from each pilot every month with no guilt. Yet will contact a pilot who has been off sick to remind him he is stealing from the company by not being productive. The company has set deadlines for the issue of leave, and for the past 4 years has not been able to stick to them. Instead we get an email after working hours, the day prior to a weekend saying tough luck, they are still working on it. Six years ago we received an email stating we were short of pilots, and for that year only, we would only get 30 days leave. Since that time, the 30 days has become the target. Manpower Planning crew us to achieve this. When the leave is eventually announced, they will also congratulate themselves on almost achieving 30 days of leave for most pilots. This is how EK works. They don't care.
If you are flying turbo-props now, you will join on the 777. It is taking all of the undesirable flying that the 330 is doing now. All 330s are gone by APR 17. Now, the 777 life isn't going to get as night time centric as what the 330 was, as there is a far greater group to share the cr@p. But the days of 78 hours and 16 days off will never be seen again.
In two to three years the fellas joining now will be writing on here about how things have gotten worse. And about how they would never have moved their families here if they knew what was going to happen. In the same way that fellas that joined two to three years ago are doing now.