Never had a late roster at EK in the last year. One of the joys of EK is their rather excellent rostering..and REAL bidding.
GF has no excuse. Though, to be fair, I have a feeling it has more to do with a messed up commercial dept and late decisions than with the rostering guys.....could be wrong though.
AIMS could do a proper bid - but the 'connected' guys in the airline would lose their favourite flights. And the An's et el would never have that now would they