@ Pixy: great post. I agree 100%.
..we are lowering the bar for the new hire and loosing experience with resignations...
but experience is experience; doesn't matter where u got it...
I am afraid we are recently measuring experience in EK with wrong parameters: hours flown on 380 have more relevance then those flown on 777 or , God forbid,340...... ...
Your 3000 hours on A330 flown on a different carrier do not count versus the 2000 EK PIC time required to seat on the 380 LHS...
your 15000 hrs of A320 skipper time on a flag carrier count as they were flown on a C172....
Experience..also comes with age..but not age "tout court"....years in the business...i would say, not years on the passport...
I think EK needs major changes, starting from your valid points.