I'm a bit embarrassed to be adding to this thread after reading some of the uninformed drivel from disaffected and/or envious NON EK employees on it, (where are you, 'streamline', haven't heard from you yet?)

My only comment is this: I'm glad to have received any pay rise at all, so I'm not complaining on that point. However, I just wish management could have been honest about it and called it what it was: a 5% payrise for all staff EXCEPT the pilots, for whom it was a 2% payrise and a contractural 3% annual increment.

This won't stop the hundreds of applicants for EK jobs, but it will change the profile of the applicants, which management, who are planning to increase the size of the airline by 600% over the next ten years, don't seem to care about.

As a GF Captain I guess I qualify as a total loser !! We have a three percent increment written into our contracts but it has not been paid in the past six years. So for those of you at EK you should count your blessings.

[This message has been edited by Dessert Aviator (edited 09 May 2001).]

As a GF Captain I guess I qualify as a total loser !! We have a three percent increment written into our contracts but it has been paid in the past six years. So for those of you at EK you should count your blessings.