This topic has been brought up many times in the past. If your intent before joining is to commute back home, even to Europe, I would seriously reconsider. There are few, if any, according to my knowledge that are remotely successful at any semblance of life while trying to commute out of Dubai. Even if you managed on occaison to get a short string of days off (perhaps only one of those a month -in your top bid months) you will be confronted with lack of seats and a stressful return. This is in addition to the lack of quality time at home due to fatigue. That aspect is bad enough living in Dubai, I could only imagine using your precious time off to get back in an airplane to spend an even more limited amount of time with family and friends.
The company now uses the rostering system to it's advantage (commercially that's why they bought it!) to ensure as many flights possible are covered with the available crews -they simply don't have the crews to cover them all. They rely on pilots working into their days off to crew as many remaining flights as possible. You will see a mix of efficient ULH/LH flights mixed with non-productive longer layover flights to equalize the hours and days off rostered.
The long and short of it? Commuting won't work if you want a life.
If you choose to accept, good luck on the ...the "training"!!
