Wow... you guys are wrong about the world. Have any of you seen contracts... yes most of the civilised world HAS REAL CONTRACTS that the company MUST follow... in the US or major European legacy carriers????
Of course you all have.
So you can't say all over the world. Those guys still fly 20 hours less per month than the poor slaves at EK AND get paid way more pay per hour as well, as well as for holding at Desdi/Bubin, going to Sims, going to ground school and they do NOT get crammed with 75 hours in 2 weeks because you have the last 2 weeks of the month vacation
Even I get paid more "per hour" than EK having gone to a large long haul airline in Europe plus on average, 16-18 days off per month plus 9 days off in a row plus at ALT equivalent each MONTH. And believe it or not, there are airlines out there that are actually NICE to their employees and pilot group in particular. It really does exist!!
The reason EK will never change or only get worse.... is because there is no place for you all to go apparently!!
"Golden Handcuffs"