Brilliant post Gillegan.
There are no aspirations to make EK into a place worth working at such as the legacy carriers, it is exactly as you state: the BA's and Lufty management look wistfully at the way EK drives their workforce into the ground and wish they could do the same.
I for one welcome one and all bedfellows no matter how strange, to try and fight back against the sociopaths currently running the show at EK.
Meanwhile the harry's tut tut about airing dirty laundry. The stakes are so far beyond that now it's amusing to see any concern about such trivialities.
Stranger alliances have been formed. I would gladly tell ANY party about the goings on at EK but the hardest part might be getting them to be believed. Witness the wannabes on this forum alone.