Nabkin, you are nearing the BEGINNING. Start of a new situation. No roster control, no need to even get out of bed unless you want to; no mindless re-checks; Start working through the Bucket List and enjoy. You had the best. The profession is not what it used to be and be glad that you will soon be free of it.

Trader, I totally agree with you. This was a well explained post.

To another comment about leaving. I think it is easier said than done to just leave. Each and every person over here has different family circumstances where you simply can't pack up and leave. Most are not single anymore and can't take a pay cut, interrupt family life and just start over again. This doesn't mean they have to shut up and take it.

I find it very disturbing that people, particular the management works with the motto "if you don't like it, then leave." This is such a disrespectful and unprofessional response to give to those that work for you. Especially to the senior guys. The guts these people have.....wow. Seniority really means nothing here.

Papers today say Dubai property is expected to drop in value 20% over the next year or so. Track down one of the highly trained realty professionals and ask them how much it will cost you to leave Dubai if you have fronted a 15% downpayment in some "iconic" development....

Spoken like a true management troll. Or EK manager wannabe. :}

No, it's not a business. It's evil and abuse. Business is something else - it relies on humans and trade between humans. Humans are not the factor which you can neglect in business equation. Now, I understand the trend and various "experts" (media experts, before all) trying to convince you that this is how business looks like. But it doesn't. It's an excuse for individuals to get rich on the expense of less fortunate people. You can adore it, you can defend it, you can be abused and like it, but don't call it a business.

Ive said it before and i'll say it again...vote Nakita for head of the EK pilots union!

Well said Nakita...!

Only ever been a line pilot and have never had aspirations otherwise.

Airlines, or any other business for that matter, exist to make money, simple as that.

I like your thinking Landflap.

:ok::ok::ok: for landflap.

:)

Thanks Outlaw, but no thanks. :}

I am done with EK. Tried to pull out my money, didn't make it. In the meantime I've published few horrible stories. If EK managers spoke with me instead of hating me, maybe everything would be different.

Bottom line, my blog played a little part (or no part at all) in what is happening with EK now. It was logical and expected that they will start to fall apart soon. Nobody there cares about that company's future.

Anyways, now I have to sort out my life which EK interrupted with their cruelty.

What you are reading in this thread has been brought about by the Western style of management, where you have foreigners tripping over themselves to show the Sheikhs how clever they are.
Some animals eat their own, and most airlines with overseas management, are nicely fattened.

In companies in Singapore like Scoot, Tiger etc, they pay the locals at the top at least 3 times that of the serfs, and a share of any budgetary savings they can withhold from them.

Overall, the bottom line of supply and demand is the key. But conditions, respect, blatant lying, shifting the goalposts, depend on how much management pilots think they can get away with.
After all, they have to show Marketing and finance that they too are not pilots.

Rdr, :ok:Good point.