Hope I am not getting int repetition, but in manila have not been able to get into pprune for a couple of weeks, just error messages.
To my point if I may.
Going back to the famous or infamous Emirates event in Melbourne, one glaring point came out in my opinion.
At one stage it was stated that an Emirates crew would do two out and return flights per month.
That equates to four take-offs and landings to be shared (undoubtedly not equally) between four cockpit crew.
That produces a total of 8-10 hours of hands on flying at whatever share per pilot.
Its hardly enough to keep ones PPL current.
I believe that where airlines have long haul and short haul operations, it would not be such a bad idea to have monthly changeovers, as short haul do much more "flying".
May cost more in training etc. but after AF447, a change in training methods appears inevitable.