Well if we’re talking Europe as has been mentioned many times before there are 7-8 good airlines to work for on the continent. The rest don’t pay as much as EK but they don’t work as hard as we do and they live and work in a socialist society that doesn’t allow for blatant abuse, something that we are all to familiar with.
The 7-8 airlines that most of us would love to work for pay similar as us and work less not to mention the better QOL we all crave as Pilots. 15% less work is huge especially at the high end of hours worked. 80 hrs vs 92 hrs is a lot worse then it seems on paper then you consider 6 continents and flying at all hours of the clock that we do.
I haven’t seen BAs schedule in a while but I’m pretty sure their flights leave around the same time. The NA flying leaves mid morning while the east bound long haul leaves late. We go to NA at three separate and disparaging times. 2am 8am and 2pm. East bound the same. 2am 8am and 6pm so we as pilots are all over the place. So we are overworked overwhelmed and time zone abused.
We haven’t even talked about QF CX or the NA airlines which you alluded to have it pretty good. If you as a trainer bring home 50,000 dhs I personally would rather have the 9,000 quid at BA but obviously that’s not an option so I will in my fog based mind dream of the unattainable.