A habubi told a friend today during a flight 30 weeks. Serious rumor

Heard from reliable source after recent email sent out asking A380 pilots for volunteers to go on A350, hardly any applied. Interestingly that email was sent out at same time as email sent to B777 captains asking for volunteers to go on A380! Minimal response from B777 Captains!

As for bonus not heard 30 weeks, more likely 24-26 but heard they were discussing pay rise to counter potential RIA exodus.

EK short of real experience on type (A380 DECs not working so well, having being on an A330 etc doesn’t help flying A380 as training is exposing!) Already trouble spreading experience across expanding aircraft types (A380 - A350 and B777ER / LR / F plus combo freighter and 777X arriving soon), so potentially losing pilots to RIA is major headache!

Did not EK sack a whole lot of experience in a AAR rage against anyone who had been sick for more than a month? You reap what you sow.

Ria is not operating until it gets the birds.
therefore no pilots needed basically until 2027 at least.
That's 3 years from now..
Tick tock tick tock...

Any word of EK slowing expansion with conflict potentially intensifying?

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68734689

Anyone who has flown the A330/A340 knows what’s going to happen on the A350…
That’s why hardly anybody wants to go back from the A380!
Way more short night turnarounds and more duty days with minimum off days per month…

Why would one want to do that??

330/340 shoveled metaphorical manure doing night turnarounds that 777 has now had to take up. The 350 will likely have some turns, if for no other reason than line checks, but it should be the darling of the fleet, at least for a while, and get some good destinations as well as trips that are just work.

heard Timmy and entourage were in Aus discussing Ek possibly going to West Sydney airport

Makes sense since there supposedly won't be curfew or flight caps

5strypes.

no expansion at all. there hasnt been a single frame added to the fleet since airbus closed the 380 assembly line in 2021. needless to mention the ones being scraped to make keychains. 2 or 3 77 freighters if thats called expansion and some 300ers returned to the lessor.
350 likely to join them soon but not in large numbers intially, more like filling the gaps of the retirees and boeing delays.

Apologies, perhaps I was using the term expansion too liberally. But there are huge numbers joining and as you say 350s in the pipeline.

Lots of guys not going on the 350 as routes will be bad. Would love to have a go though

Airspace and now rain. Why does this stuff always happen before bonus announcements?

G'day Don.

It shows the management the incredible resilience of the entire company under extremely challenging conditions and perhaps adds a few more weeks to the bonus as an extra thank-you from the 9th Floor. Let's see.

Exactly! That does seem like the most obvious thing. A very good ploy for pay raises later on perhaps? Anyone got the number of that cloud seeding fella?

HEAVY RAIN!!!
 

Hope everyone is ok with the rain and all. Does this mean they won’t give the bonus and step again.

How it looks from outside:

It rains ——> i guess they will raise our salary
there is a cloud in the sky ————> they need to give us a bonus
a person smiling in Cambodia ———-> now they have no excuse , i am expecting a 30% salary raise
sunny ——> if they expect us to work in this condition, they better give us a huge bonus
A mosquito in the neighbour’s house ——-> that’s it! If they won’t give us a 3243434324% basic pay raise i am out of here

do you actually read what you write?

We are no more than mercenaries, money talks. Otherwise why would anyone do it? Theres no love in this companies...

I heard from a habubi that they have been flooded with applications

Yepp… Flooded ;-)