Top Bid group for Nov.
86 hours flying (3 Londons, 1 Paris, 1 HKG, and a turnround), with 14 days off (no leave just days off!) not including 2 rest days! So thats 10 hours overtime approx 3000dhs.
Got everything I bid for, however not always like that, bottom bids are a waste of time bidding for, and don't believe the 'you wont get reserve between reserve months' crap, they just disguise them as available days on your roster and then change them the day before to a reserve several of which I got on my 2nd for top bid month despite having already done my month of reserve!!
I too used to work for a large British charter airline, and you do get more time off and more stable rosters here, its just that EK squeezes more flying in to your time on than any other airline on the planet and most of that is at night....
Good luck