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Forum: Middle East
4th Mar 2011, 13:30
Replies: 57
Views: 35,146
Posted By Marooned

Harry, you've made the point entirely. The...

Harry, you've made the point entirely. The originator of the thread gave a snapshot of EK now and omitted the points you have just made:



Nothing can or should be expected because the contract...
Forum: Middle East
3rd Mar 2011, 03:13
Replies: 136
Views: 39,524
Posted By Marooned

Perhaps back nearer the topic, an insightful read...

Perhaps back nearer the topic, an insightful read is Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein. In it she describes how during periods of economic shock, social unrest and civil war, the west mobilises to...
Forum: Middle East
1st Mar 2011, 14:19
Replies: 57
Views: 35,146
Posted By Marooned

There are the Emirates 'facts' you have chosen to...

There are the Emirates 'facts' you have chosen to share and practical experience these facts turn out to be. The 'facts' omit the numerous changes that have taken place through bitter experience...
Forum: Middle East
1st Mar 2011, 08:35
Replies: 57
Views: 35,146
Posted By Marooned

Aussie; they are desperate but delusional. They...

Aussie; they are desperate but delusional. They still believe there are enough out there with the current experience criteria to fill the slots to keep growing and to fill those left by those...
Forum: Middle East
21st Feb 2011, 14:35
Replies: 12
Views: 4,923
Posted By Marooned

...and absolutely avoid any so called colleagues...

...and absolutely avoid any so called colleagues who say they have a pilot investment scheme that will earn you a 60% return! They should have been locked up but are still running loose.

All they...
Forum: Middle East
21st Feb 2011, 06:19
Replies: 136
Views: 39,524
Posted By Marooned

Contacted; The oil wealth that is controlled by...

Contacted; The oil wealth that is controlled by AUH is theirs, under their soil. Dubai gets to control what wealth it gets from it's much smaller oil and gas reserves.

The UAE is a federation with...
Forum: Middle East
21st Feb 2011, 04:12
Replies: 136
Views: 39,524
Posted By Marooned

Only that the 20 year old in the Ferrari is...

Only that the 20 year old in the Ferrari is probably a Sunni. In Egypt we witnessed the masses more or less united against a common foe. In Bahrain it is the inequalities between Sunni and Shia which...
Forum: Middle East
18th Feb 2011, 07:24
Replies: 25
Views: 6,433
Posted By Marooned

There is the difference from having applicants on...

There is the difference from having applicants on the books and those willing to leave a secure job during insecure times.

TCAS and EK are reaping what they've sowed and are finding it hard to...
Forum: Middle East
6th Feb 2011, 05:18
Replies: 14
Views: 6,263
Posted By Marooned

This is the same little man who preaches "tough...

This is the same little man who preaches "tough times ahead' and "increased productivity" whilst wearing his pimped up Rolex.

He will never know what it is like to fly the rosters we do. Like most...
Forum: Middle East
26th Jan 2011, 05:55
Replies: 61
Views: 14,901
Posted By Marooned

M 5.5: Point taken.

M 5.5: Point taken.
Forum: Middle East
26th Jan 2011, 05:03
Replies: 61
Views: 14,901
Posted By Marooned

Interesting stuff indeed. When aircraft...

Interesting stuff indeed.

When aircraft developed with increased range, places like Gander were overflown and wilted away. As LR/ULR types increase the range capabilities of national airlines,...
Forum: Middle East
31st Dec 2010, 07:58
Replies: 52
Views: 13,544
Posted By Marooned

The IRG & 'Flintstones' still managed to kill...

The IRG & 'Flintstones' still managed to kill over 700,000 of each other... without nukes.

In a more 'modern' war, Operation Enduring 'Freedom', the toll is already over 100,000 and increasing. ...
Forum: Middle East
31st Dec 2010, 02:40
Replies: 52
Views: 13,544
Posted By Marooned

Iran: UAE evacuation plan.

Read a shorter version of this Telegraph article in 7 Days... Hope it doesn't come to anything but worth a look as are some of the related articles contained in it:


Britain forms plan for Gulf...
Forum: Middle East
28th Dec 2010, 13:21
Replies: 136
Views: 30,317
Posted By Marooned

The good posts are what you want to hear perhaps...

The good posts are what you want to hear perhaps and the bad the things you don't? You will not be the first to do this and as the recruitment spin keeps polishing the proverbial, you will not be the...
Forum: Middle East
22nd Dec 2010, 16:03
Replies: 22
Views: 7,476
Posted By Marooned

Let's hope that TCAS see's the human side (and...

Let's hope that TCAS see's the human side (and remembers what support is and not what control does). Let us also hope that Clarke wasn't looking out of his window and wants to make another point or...
Forum: Middle East
17th Dec 2010, 05:52
Replies: 41
Views: 16,011
Posted By Marooned

It's still 108 in a year and a half. It may...

It's still 108 in a year and a half.

It may not appear significant yet but the leak is an indication that dam is damaged.
Forum: Middle East
16th Dec 2010, 17:25
Replies: 41
Views: 16,011
Posted By Marooned

WK: Dubai. IMF: $109 billion. Merrill...

WK: Dubai.

IMF: $109 billion.
Merrill Lynch: $184 billion.
France 24: minimum $100.
FT: $110 billion.

All late 2010 estimates for Dubai's debt, not the UAE.

Dubai World: Originally...
Forum: Middle East
16th Dec 2010, 14:11
Replies: 41
Views: 16,011
Posted By Marooned

FB: They will. Despite many warnings that...

FB: They will.

Despite many warnings that the property boom was going to burst and the jewel of the desert was a fake many buried their heads, continued buying and are now broke.

All the signs...
Forum: Middle East
16th Dec 2010, 04:27
Replies: 41
Views: 16,011
Posted By Marooned

The Significant 7

7 is a significant number when EK need to recruit and not lose pilots. I have no doubt that the powers that be are deaf and blind to any or all warnings and would need 10 similar groups to do the...
Forum: Middle East
15th Nov 2010, 16:45
Replies: 13
Views: 3,752
Posted By Marooned

FAA Audit...

The FAA are here auditing the GCAA!

If they don't see here and now (or don't want to see) what is going on to make EK the profits it makes, don't expect any help when you cry to them in the US.
Forum: Middle East
10th Oct 2010, 04:42
Replies: 41
Views: 8,402
Posted By Marooned

Stylo, what has really gone on are cost cuts...

Stylo, what has really gone on are cost cuts after cost cuts. Increases in productivity pushing all staff, flight and ground, to unsafe levels so that you can enjoy a cheap ticket and Dubai Inc has a...
Forum: Middle East
7th Oct 2010, 18:58
Replies: 41
Views: 8,402
Posted By Marooned

Safety is reactive, not pro-active. They...

Safety is reactive, not pro-active.

They have invested a great deal of time and effort into our 'Crisis management/response team' in a tacit acceptance that a hull loss is going to happen.

Too...
Forum: Middle East
23rd Sep 2010, 15:48
Replies: 61
Views: 18,666
Posted By Marooned

How much?

EK380, you either hide behind a desk talking about flying but rarely do it, thinking of new FCIs to push your ex-colleagues to the limits for your 'bonus' or, even simpler, full of :mad:
Forum: Middle East
19th Sep 2010, 03:16
Replies: 43
Views: 12,451
Posted By Marooned

Full circle...

If the tools in recruitment just realized that the best recruitment tool for the company would be its own pilots!

I know that myself and many others have not and would not recommend EK to anyone...
Forum: Middle East
30th Jun 2010, 15:33
Replies: 5
Views: 2,354
Posted By Marooned

Financing of EKs aircraft must be in doubt. The...

Financing of EKs aircraft must be in doubt. The Emirate is more or less bankrupt and relies on loans from its neighbor. EK is tied to the financial brick of the wider DXB economy and will sink or...
Forum: Middle East
29th Jun 2010, 00:34
Replies: 9
Views: 3,380
Posted By Marooned

One of the founding 'managers' has no problem...

One of the founding 'managers' has no problem boasting about his expensive properties and flash new Merc all of which would/should pay back some of the debt. Pity he didn't get to the bit about 'what...
Forum: Middle East
20th May 2010, 17:55
Replies: 19
Views: 7,046
Posted By Marooned

Fatbus; Absolutely nothing. Any profits will be...

Fatbus; Absolutely nothing. Any profits will be syphoned off to the shareholders and their companies in an ultimately wasted attempt to keep DXB Inc solvent. Ek has to support a myriad of...
Forum: Middle East
20th May 2010, 15:08
Replies: 19
Views: 7,046
Posted By Marooned

A bit of perspective...

EKs $1.1 billion profit (real or not) pales into insignificance when you realize that Dubai Inc is still up to it's neck in debt:

BBC Business commenting on Dubai World's debt restructuring:


...
Forum: Middle East
25th Apr 2010, 04:46
Replies: 17
Views: 4,671
Posted By Marooned

Contracts, as many EK employees will tell you,...

Contracts, as many EK employees will tell you, are worthless here.

Many bought off plan with assurances of completion dates from developers or penalties if dates were not met. Now that they have...
Forum: Middle East
23rd Apr 2010, 09:24
Replies: 17
Views: 4,671
Posted By Marooned

You can also make a small fortune if you put a...

You can also make a small fortune if you put a larger one into EPI. :mad:

Trying to find people with 'expertise' in purchasing property here is like trying to find a rat snake in a pit of vipers.
Forum: Middle East
22nd Apr 2010, 09:49
Replies: 17
Views: 4,671
Posted By Marooned

Perceived value verses the actual.

Look in the papers, ask the agents, then property prices are still strong. Of course they would do anything to try and talk the market up because they are stuck with a portfolio of over-priced...
Forum: Middle East
21st Mar 2010, 20:07
Replies: 44
Views: 15,063
Posted By Marooned

M&M/Mana or whoever else you'll be soon, did you...

M&M/Mana or whoever else you'll be soon, did you actually read the post?



If they/you stuck to the 'contract', and I use the word contract loosely, it may well be one of the best packages but...
Forum: Middle East
19th Mar 2010, 16:50
Replies: 42
Views: 8,046
Posted By Marooned

Have any of the promises been kept?

Many have lost or are writing off investments whilst one of the founders has bought himself an expensive new car and house and even has the gall to brag about it... At least one made some money out...
Forum: Middle East
19th Mar 2010, 16:39
Replies: 9
Views: 3,665
Posted By Marooned

MM, Martin perhaps? Following on from where Mana...

MM, Martin perhaps? Following on from where Mana left off?

Anyway, industry norms? A bit sweeping, perhaps you can let me know who and where does the same rosters/routes/ factored hours as EK so...
Forum: Middle East
11th Mar 2010, 02:07
Replies: 173
Views: 51,430
Posted By Marooned

Mana: The lack of respect is mutual and not being...

Mana: The lack of respect is mutual and not being enhance one iota by you.

It was the company that broke off any dialogue with the pilots many years ago shortly after the AAR 'review' debacle....
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