The other thing that also needs to be considered is that we are currently woefully under-crewed, and it will get worse as the amount of ULR we do increases.
There should be at least an extra 2-300 pilots on the list than there are now.
Cathay has a smaller fleet than EK, and runs an almost identical operation (short/medium/long/ulr all wide body), and yet has around 2800 pilots.... Go figure!
