Don't be put off by junior FOs trying to talk you out of it, your experience scares them!
I have ±8500 hours, and a wide range of experience, from turbo prop to short haul 737 and A320 to roughly 3000 hours on a 747.
My advice: don't listen to Aussies, they're the biggest selfish off-day-selling
you'll find in this industry.
Emirates, Cathay, Ryan, Easy, they're full of them! Just ask around and you'll quickly find out how popular they are...
You'd be a candidate for what used to be called fast track command, six months in the right and then across?
Right, and you have any idea why he will be an ideal candidate for a "fast track?" That's because all the other "candidates" who have 3-4000 hours have left in the illusion that Emirates will be better than that
low cost airline that they left behind. The Middle East is full of former Ryanair and easyJet pilots who were desperate to escape the 900 hours/year fatigue nightmare. They'll be disappointed of course, but they don't know that yet. These short term fools think that a bigger jet + a bit of kitsch & glamour = better lifestyle.
As Zeddb has said, it's a total illusion that experience counts. The only reason why they would want a few thousand hours is because airlines need suckers to put in the LHS for when it goes wrong.