EK scheduling rumor
 

Is that rumour coming out late this year? How many times does it get reused? Wonder if the one stating ATC is gonna become the boss of fly dubai, expo, DNATA (insert your favourite place here) is gonna be next?

For example: "Adel the Curt".

It fits in so so many ways.


According to Apple;

curt

adjective after a curt response to Mary's accusation, he grabbed his coat and headed for the door: terse, brusque, clipped, abrupt, blunt, short, monosyllabic, summary; snappish, snappy, sharp, tart; gruff, offhand, unceremonious, ungracious, rude, impolite, discourteous, uncivil. ANTONYMS expansive.


Now we just have to figure out who fits that description.

I thought you made a spelling mistake. I really need to get my mind out the gutter

I know, I know...an "r" so easily looks like an "n" I think you hit it night on the rail tho!

From simpleflying.com :

https://simpleflying.com/rumor-emira...ot-to-fly/amp/

A former EK flight attendant who years later is an investment banker in Lower Manhattan claims that some girls offered more than money to get trips to see their overseas boyfriends. I'm shocked, shocked I tell you... :eek:

Where've you been, Rainman, pretty much everyone knew that. It's one of those deals that's outrageous if you're not in on it and relies on exclusivity and yes some here doth protest too much lest the facts slip out. A rumour's tenacious regularity does not make it busted.

Goes on in every airline to some extent. Haven't heard of any cash exchanging hands in ours but some of the beach routes or long stops in our outfit have been known to get swapped along with additional days off or exchanging an annual leave day.

......or maybe roster was late 'cause of some crewmembers taking their own lives.....?

​​​heard of several recently, sadly.

Is that a joke ?

Back to the rosters etc.
The more senior I get the worse my rosters are!
I get my one request in the top 2 bid months, but nothing else!!

Having been here almost 2 decades I am told there is "general lack of bid satisfaction", " my bids are good but the issue is the system" "with my seniority the bids should have been attainable!" These are explanations from the guys who know the system!

So for all you new joiners and potential new joiners who think the rosters will get better after a few years in EK, heads up our new SVP does not like seniority in the bid system!! He believes we should all be equal!!! No one should have any priority in the bid system!!

So as many are finding now, if your roster is sh*t when you are junior unfortunately it is not going to change in any way soon!!
Trust me this is the next issue which will make more people leave!! Already FOs are leaving!!

Also take note that seniority = loyalty to the company!! This speaks volumes about their attitude to loyalty, giving not an iota of benefit in the roster system to those of us that have shown some loyalty, sums EK up at the moment!

Can you believe it? They usually like DXB.

Yeah. Mooi van vêr af... Maar vêr van mooi af.

Safair is recruiting First officers,Captains and Training officers in South Africa. Left Dubai one year ago and now living in Cape Town and I can truly say I am happy. I do miss a decent shwarma though but perhaps I just havent found the right place here that makes it. My children are thriving here. They adapted a lot faster than me who lived 18 years in the sandpit. I really should of left earlier but I was too scared.

According to the SVPs latest newsprint it seems now that our preference bids get little or no preferential treatment!
So look forward to only getting your 1 request in the top 2 bid months and the rest of the time.......... who knows! Wave goodbye to the vaunted 10 days off - 5 requested days followed by 5 preference days - because thats becoming a rarity!!

We all know that the system has to fulfil business criteria, but are they seriously saying the present system cannot even manage to give a few preferences each month! Maybe taking out all the company restrictions, letting the system run as it was designed unshackled by stupid additions i.e. give unlimited preferences and unlimited requests (YES this is how it was designed!) would help!

And you know what really gets me - SVP says this is how it is, he has not once said that they are looking to try to improve it! A windbag, all hot air and no action!

Agent Orange

Latest rosters are absolutely abysmal, this is not a bidding system at Emirates. Totally useless and waste of time bidding. Quality of life at EK takes another step into the crapper. Such shame, as it doesn't need to be. Maybe I should manage my expectations :mad::ouch:

SyB

Duh. Of course they are.

Merely adjust your CI to suit your level of roster satisfaction.

MM

Despite your desperate desire to rid yourself of this region, you can't quite let go can you? Nothing has changed I see, still offering your wonderful words of wisdom, dispatched with the same mix of arrogance, petulance and a heavy dose of immaturity.

Do we also detect an element of schadenfreude in your post? Anyone with half a brain would see it. Because profit share is no longer an option for you, those that remain should forgo the future potential of extra income? So, a rallying cry to the ex troops to be vindictive in fuel burn should do the trick. Well, trying to sound cool and clever on PPRune is one thing, actually behaving like a **** on the flight deck is quite another.

You obviously lack the maturity to realise that the vast majority of pilots here do their job professionally and to a high standard. Did you not see that during your tenure in EK or where you too busy teaching your techniques to the hapless and captive audience sat opposite.

Anyway, haven't you got better things to be doing with your time, such as demonstrating to those F15 pilots what an ace you are in your.....er....Hawk?

Harry

Well, this ought to be good!

Right on. Where's the 'like' button?

And it only took two weeks for that reply from WK... guess the rosters really did get worse if there's no time to Pprune from a Sandpit forum stalwart...

Another friend flew the coop this week, and another last month with no job lined up no worries unemployment is still attractive compared to the crap the rostering dish out.

Relevant point to original topic: it wasnt just crew offering "other" paymemt; there were a few chaps known to call up female crew to offer them better trips/days off for.... "payment".

They tried it on me once I told him to foxtrot oscar and yes the call was recorded since they recorded us no permission required for me to do same and would be happy to present to manager and police as necessary, especially if suddenly my rosters became even more ****.

Never heard from.him again.

Yeah but it's often the crew who never get propositions that complain the loudest about such sleazy moves