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They are not hiring DEFOs at the moment, as to when they might...... who knows, but they will fight tooth and nail to get the cheapest option, iDESOs first and when they have done that and found that no-one will come for much less than the previous DESO, then that will be the course they will take initially. NO DEFOs at least for this year and quite possibily next.
Your experience level is nearing the level which the last batch of DESOs had many years ago, unless you mean 2000PIC on the 73, then you would be closer to what previous DEFOs had.
European base, they may go down the route of hiring DESOs onto bases, this sounds appealling. However, thaat wold then mean that your move to FO and CPT would entail you either a. moving to HKG, for which they would probably consider you to be on the HKPA (local terms) or b. sitting on your base and waiting for your FO/CPT upgrade, which quite honestly would take your career. I would conservatively say 10-12 years to upgrade to FO and perhaps another 10-12 years to upgrade to CPT ie 20-24years.
Career airline for sure, if you intend to progress at a snails pace and be grossly undercompensated.