EK Oz Pilot 3 months suspended for 'shirt lifting?'

[pissedoffpilotek]

Times are getting harder!

An interesting snippet in 7 days today.

"Dubai - An Emirates pilot has received a three month suspended prison sentence for stealing from a supermarket in Dubai. The 34-year-old Australian, who earns around dhs50,000 a month, was caught stealing T-shirts from the store."

does anyone have any more details?
I'm assuming that it must have been a singlet probably with xxxx on the front.

For any one thinking of joining EK that is how bad things have become..pilots cannot afford clothing any more

[Keith Discovering]

Saw in 7 Days this am that a "34 year old Australian EK pilot, earning Dhs 50,000 per month (must be a DEC) has got 3 months suspended jail term for stealing shirts from a store"

http://www.7days.ae/showstory.php?id=53246

Is this really true?

[Aussie]

Haha, classic... Wonder how true this is? Didnt realise Captains werent paid in EK

[pintofstella]

50k a month, s@@t, where do i apply, been here 12 years and still not earning that!!!

[fatbus]

Add housing and I think a new Capt would be @50

[Warlock2000]

Give a colleague the benefit of the doubt

I find this VERY hard to believe. Perhaps a bit of media-isation of the story??
He prob forgot to pay for something and it all got out of hand - as it so often can here.

[atiuta]

No Australian exists on the EK seniority list with the initials quoted in the GN.

Falcon perhaps?

[nitro rig driver]

Must be true
was in 7 days-the only free speach newpaper in the ME-

[GoreTex]

its a 340 FO, that shows how bad the pay is, dont know how many kids he has, but maybe EK could hand out some food stamps for FO's with more than 3 kids

[JonBoy80]

A fine example of an EK pilot..

[Agent Mulder]

Maybe this is something of a widescale problem.........may be hes the first one to be caught, and many more have got way?. I wonder how many F/O's are now thinking, just one more T-shirt run....just one more.., or the Nagging Jameirah Jane, saying YOU BETA DO ONE MORE T-SHIRT RUN M8 or I heading back home with the kids...........

[Muttley Crew]

Blame the English, it was they who stocked Aust with their thieving scum. Thanks to them, stealing is in your average Aussie's blood...

By the way, apparently 'shirt-lifting' is okay here as long as you give but don't take.




50k for an FO??? Must've been one of those Direct Entry FOs.

[Blue-Footed Boobie]

Can you fly an A340 with a hand chopped off??

Blue Foot

[Flying Mechanic]

which shop

anyone know the shop?, Spinneys/Choitrams/Park and Rob, I hope it wasn't a Carrefour 10 DHS special

[JonBoy80]

Just when I thought Pilots try and get out of paying the bill when going out with crew on a layover, it has now reached the point whereby they steal tshirts.

[doubleu-anker]

Stealing (shirt lifting) is probably hereditary. In fact I am sure it's in the jeans.

[Trashed Aviator]

Stop deleting my posts its true what i said....

[harry the cod]

No, it's diarrhoea that's hereditary. That most definately runs in your jeans!

[doubleu-anker]

You another Australian that is having difficulty coming to terms with it's ancestry?

[Warlock2000]

Can you fly an A340 with a hand chopped off??

YES! As long as it's the LEFT hand.
EK doesn't require / allow / trust it's pilots to fly manual thrust so why would a FO need a left hand?