I can't believe some of this pompous horse manure I'm reading here. The US majors hire just about all their guys from turboprop / RJ / ex mil / bizjet backgrounds. Same with a few other dodgy amateur operators like Cathay, Qantas, Virgin
Firstly in the US you need 1500 hours before they will let you touch a Dash 8. Second you need at least 3000 hours to submit your application to a Major. Third you need about 5,000 hours TT with about 2,000 PIC to be anywhere near the beginning of competitive. These numbers are not even close to what EK is asking.
There are several people at EK that are over 10,000 hours with wide body PIC time waiting for the majors to call. You are waaaaay off base on this one my friend.