Originally Posted by
emiratesfatigue
I am currently a B777 Captain at Emirates. To say things at this airline are going downhill is a bit of an understatement, it's more like they are going off a cliff. In the last 6 years it has gone from working 70 hours a month to 90 and they have ignored the pilots contract about overtime and have completely stopped paying it. A lot of US pilots here are looking to go back to the US majors. I am just wondering if that is a good idea. So here is the questions for any UAL pilots out there. Go do the interview at UAL, or forget about it and stay at EK?
Could you provide your age? Unless you are quite a bit older, I would say things appear to be brightening up at UAL right now. We will retire half the seniority list in the next 10 years, and financially things seem to be improving. There is money being invested in the operation for the first time in a long time. Still some acrimonious things going on with our management, but nothing like what you describe at Emirates.