Nice to see you guys agree with a lot of the things I've been saying. When will EK wake up to themselves? (When the mugs stop paying I guess).

Oh, and I forgot to mention this in my most recent tirade, but it really is a major problem for EK. And that's the timeliness of flights. DXB is such a constraining influence with it's lack of runways, ATC and the like, that approx 99.94% of flights into and out of DXB are late, many by half an hour or more. You can't run a quality airline on this basis.

And here's another stupidity. I'm currently at DXB waiting for he 3 pm flight to FCO. I was also here at 2 am and asked if if could transfer to the 9 am flight, which was also more lightly loaded. I was told by an automaton in ticketing it would cost USD 50, so naturally I said no thanks (I don't have any time commitments in Rome), but I did vow to drink more than $50 worth of champagne, and other beverages, which I am currently partway through. Surely it's not in EK's interest to have me sitting in the business lounge consuming all kinds of goodies for another 6 hours when they could easily have got rid of me hours ago.

And we could go on and on...