May I know what is ACMI
The point of EASA license is that here in GCC they require EASA license to join them as a CPL holder without experience except KSA which requires FAA and Kuwait which accept only ( L3 Harris and FTE graduates). They accept any ICAO if you are experienced only
The point is not just getting the 500 hours as most of those p2f schemes have job contracts for specific years as they declare.
After that you can join major airlines once you are experienced having at least 1000 hours and more.
In this field the requirements changes every day and at the moment I am thinking only to start now