OH FFS!! (To be polite)
Please stop trying to cherry pick!!!! Take what you are offered and try to work up, like the rest of us are doing.... there is no short hop to longhaul unless you want to work for VS or for some sort of Icelandic 747 carrier and then you might have to be based out of Jeddah in the Hadj season. Do some people a favour and do your bit of shorthaul like the rest of us had to do ........