Fired600, Emirates have 400 Airbus pilots they can bring back with a month's notice - most would be able to (and, crucially, want to) come back with less. That is before they start to recall the ones they made redundant, most of whom would be begging to come back just to put food on the table. The 380s are parked up at Dubai World, not in some corner of Arizona or Australia, and they can be made serviceable again very quickly. They can service any remotely conceivable increase in demand.