Cliff,

I'm not taking a pop at you and I wish you the best of luck getting a shot at EK but it would be very foolish to simply dismiss the moaning on Pprune as the rantings of a vocal minority. I have quite a few friends at EK. Some in Mgt, some "lowly" FO's and one that has been there from the very beginnings of EK. None of them are your usual "glass half empty" types but they are all, to a person, worried about the direction EK Mgt has taken over the recent years. The guys that joined EK in the last 3 years are all simply waiting for things to pick up in the US and they'll be back in a New York minute. Even if it means starting at the bottom of someone's list and taking a huge paycut.

As I said in another post, do your homework very thoroughly. If you're going to end up hating your job and being pi$$ed off at life, the desert is the last place you want to be. Even if it seems like EK is your only choice.