Originally Posted by
shukran
More rumors of 700+ this coming Sunday, mostly A380.
250 Trainers to remain, as they can fly both seats.
The majority remaining to be locals.
Only 30 A380s total to stay.
Looks like Emiratization is in full effect - much like SAUDIA.
Emiratization always was the plan from day 1 - the current crisis has just advanced the timescale. Whether they can avoid the sort of GF style debacle that we saw when they tried it is the question - personally given the calibre of some of those involved I doubt it very much.