411A,
You are probably right about F/O's being a dime a dozen, but there is a significant difference between fronting up for a job in the USA or Europe, where reasonable workplace practices are enforced (to a greater or lesser degree) and packing your family up for the middle east, to join a company that has shown it won't honour commintments made during recruiting.
Additional to that, many of our F/O's are experienced Captains that are in the process of being shafted. As we all know, recruiting is as much word of mouth as anything else. What do you think these guys will be telling their mates back home at the moment?
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The Rev