The training department steals all the good flights, even its a night flight as long its a nice destination, when I fly with new FO's they have been all over Europe but never to Africa, had a 340 flight to MXP but training took it and gave me the TRI's 340 flight to CMN because he didn't like to go there.
It's BS and its bad for the training what they do, the trainers "Emirates finest" say it openly they want to go into training for the nice flights because they can't stand the crap flights anymore. Well done EK.