I heard the story that the GCAA had stopped EK from raising the annual limit to 1000hrs last year because of the factoring.
If this is the case, then with no factoring, the limit could well be raised to 1000hours.
This will have little to no effect on us, many of us are already operating in the 950-980 unfactored hours for the last 12 months, and factoring brought it to 850-890 hours.
I do suspect the Captains will suddenly find "quiet" months, since they have been working 5-10 hours/month harder than us F/Os for quite a while, and it was the factoring that brought them barely within the 900 hour limit.