I’m honestly perplexed that you guys are comparing EK to Delta. Delta is a first tier, first choice airline located in a first world country. Emirates is none of those things. No doubt it once was first choice, it probably was when some of you came, but those days are long gone. As Flion wrote, there are plenty of reasons people stay, and plenty of reasons why some still come, but no one should kid themselves that there is any comparison between the sh*t sandwiches continually served up out of EGHQ and the treatement exprerienced by those in a real airline.
Now, returning to the original subject of thread, real airlines don’t bond their Captains- they don’t have to.