Ed wrote
One of Emirates strengths in the areas of operational flight safety has always been that our flight crews have had a greater depth of experience than our competitors across the range of destinations and regions to which the airline operates.
Just what does this mean? Does it mean that because Emirates flies somewhere that they are safer than an airline that doesn't fly to that same destination or region? Beats me!
Actually, what could be safer than not flying somewhere at all?
This policy has allowed us to ensure a superior level of knowledge and understanding with regard to the operating environment as well as ensure adequate preparation for command by First Officers. Equally, it provides improved operational decision-making by Commanders who are thereby intimately familiar with the intricacies of the individual airports and their surroundings.
What policy? No policy is either specifically or generally mentioned. Does he mean a policy of transporting 'customers' to demanding destinations and charging them for the privilege?
Over the last several months, Flight Ops has been tracking a disturbing trend by a growing number of pilots to continuously bid to the same destination each week and often month after month.
What Flight Ops have been witlessly tracking is a consequence not a cause. As
GMDS points out it's a vagary of the bidding system that if we want to go somewhere just once, we will probably end up going there 3 times in that bidding month. The previous bidding system that was in place before CRS came along some years ago allowed bidders to cap the number of visits to a destination. An obvious and desirable facility, but one which has escaped Emirates and CRS until now.
Maybe with this rule, there will be some improvement in the random selections generated by CRS in the lower bid groups.