I'd love to see EK implement these requirements under the current conditions:
SWISS also meets all the requirements demanded by the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) of any airline seeking to abolish the rule:
- ensuring suitable selection criteria and procedures to assess the psychological and safety-relevant demands made on pilots;
- ensuring stable employment terms and conditions for cockpit personnel;
- giving pilots (easy) access to any psychological or other support programmes they may need;
- demonstrating an ability as a company to minimize the psychological and social risks to which pilots are exposed, such as loss of licence.
They'd have a hard time to even come close on just one of them...