This is from
www.emiratesgroupcareers.com, flight deck crew, rosters.....
Rostering
Emirates is following a policy where the Flight Crew are able to submit requests which can influence their monthly Roster award. Crew are allowed to submit requests for trips and days off, with a variety of options; e.g. layovers, days off after the trips, avoid a trip, consecutive days off on specific dates.
At present each category (e.g. B777 First Officers) is divided into five groups: 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. These groups are rotated each month; e.g. in March, Group 1 might be the top bid group, with Group 5 at the bottom. In April, Group 1 moves to the bottom with all other groups moving up. Thus Group 2 would be the top bid group in April.
Assuming that bids have been entered correctly, the top two groups each month achieve a high satisfaction rate.
Currently Reserve assignment is shared throughout the entire Flight Crew population (not just junior crew) and is awarded a year in advance to facilitate planning. Generally each Flight Crew will receive one period of monthly Reserve within nine months.
Besides all the other furphy's, with LRE's e-mail two months ago, this is still on the recruitment web-site.
If they need so many crew, perhaps they should be up-front with the facts.
halas