I would never fly any of their airlines. They are not necessarily skilled. They are a caste system of birthright among the privileged or ruling class. A few yes perhaps, but by large no.
“I would never fly any of their airlines.”
I hear you, but I’ll take the babes on Emirates over the aged, plus-sized, samples on United, should I be heading out of the US.
I’ve flown Emirates a number of times. The pilots on the flights I’ve been on were mostly Aussies and every one of them spoke flawless English...without a Third World accent.
“”I would never fly any of their airlines. They are not necessarily skilled. They are a caste system of birthright among the privileged or ruling class. A few yes perhaps, but by large no.””
The navy flight instructors at Miramar used to say the same thing and worse, they said the pupils of that caste could not appear to be interested in the class and that even the interested ones had to pretend to be indifferent to the instructors and their teaching.