Millerscourt
I dont expect there will be any 777 DE captains as we dont have any new aircraft being delivered for some time, so there will be an abundance of 3 year qualified F/O's when the 300ER's start arriving.
I would dearly like to see London based pilots as well, but IMHO there is as much liklihood of that as there is of spotting icebergs in the Dubai Creek. DE captains will cause enough angst around here as it is without adding insult to injury by basing them in UK.
The other more relevent point is, if you were offered a mid level EK captains salary, say 30000dhs per month with a UK base and had to pay UK tax, would you take the job.
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