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You know a lot about the ANA group of companies, but saying something like this about EK without any basis in fact can be misleading.

There is attrition at EK, but what would "quite a bit" mean? I've moved about 100 numbers up the list in 8 years so the attrition above me is pretty low. Management states that attrition is running at around 2% on a yearly basis. With 2400 pilots that would be 48 per year. Most of that occurs below me on the seniority list. Meaning that it is usually first officers leaving in the first 3 to 4 years. Once a guy makes captain it becomes much more difficult to leave since there are few jobs that can match EK's total pay and benefit package.

That all said, I personally know quite few guys who would like to leave and are actively woking on exit strategies. The problem is there just aren't that many places to go so that will keep the rate of attrition fairly low.

At one point a few years back we hit 4% attrition. That was when the airline had just over 1000 pilots. If we hit that number again it would mean about 100 pilots a year leaving and that might qualify as "quite a bit".



Typhoonpilot