Letters have been sent to the pilots. I have personally seen one.

All the pilots under training and probation or just some?

Is that initial training of all types of courses?

As a gesture of goodwill, they're giving them 14 days notice instead of 7 :}

better than 7 days as per contract

Alarmist? I'd say it's well on its way to being factual. Removing bad news from a rumor site won't make the reality any less stressful.

Stay tuned, there will be more coming...a lot more.

Post Eid, no Life-of-Brian missives, no comms, no policy, no nothing.

halas

While my thoughts are with the affected I fully agree with you.

This is, from the companies point of view, just low hanging fruit. With simulators not running at the moment and not enough sectors available for meaningful training you are just not producing anything and since they only have to pay you 7 days (yes they doubled that for the ones affected) it was unfortunately an easy decision to cut costs. Hopefully this will buy them some time to see how the market recovers and how deep they will need to cut next round.

I love this guy!

He calls people idiots because they left EK and found a better job somewhere else and are happy! I would have been SERIOUSLY concerned if I was still at EK today with the knowledge of Tim Clark's statement, " The A380 is over".

You don't think Airbus saying they weren't going to make anymore had maybe been a hint to the 380s demise? I think they said that SERIOUSLY as well, but it was in frog talk so I guess a bit hard to tell.

Except that the 380 is going to be doing a fair bit of flying from July 1st (current plans) and ramping up as the weeks go by! I guess we'll all just have to wait and see!

First round of redundancies, those still in training . @200 some rumours saying 300, both fleets .

If anyone does not believe this is real .. I have a friend who is ex Thomas Cook..was under training. I have seen his letter of termination.. it’s real .

Smart*ss
 

why are you loggining in anyway? Anyone can login anywhere they want!

Sadly, so have I.

Just out from the ARN News Centre

Emirates Airline has revealed that it will be saying goodbye to a few of its employees.

In a statement, the airliner clarified that it will continue to reassess the current situation impacted by the COVID-19 outbreak and is doing “everything possible to protect jobs”.

The Dubai-based carrier explained that they will be looking after impacted employees, and they will be treating them with fairness and respect.

Emirates also said that although flights have been slowly returning to the skies with the necessary safety measures in place, the pandemic is impacting many industries and business operations.

We reviewed all possible scenarios in order to sustain our business operations, but have come to the conclusion that we unfortunately have to say goodbye to a few of the wonderful people that worked with us.

A sad day when we have to read about the fate of our colleagues from a news feed. No correspondence from the company to us. Radio silence when it comes to bad news.

Heard from people in Training College.... Pilots and cabin crew who are on probation or still in training college got terminated today.Tragic news for them. The number of people was not as high as it was made out to be before. https://www.thenational.ae/business/...mand-1.1027002

Pilots from both fleet or just a380?

this is only the start. Probationary is norm for all organizations to axe. Then comes the other rounds

STC is due to address the Group on Monday - will be interesting to see by the usual email or a forum....