Sheik you say if an airline can take a zero time cadet it surly can take a 1500 tp pilot. Maybe it can with a good and long training program.
However I'll point out to the lesser informed the National Cadets receive years of sectors and training that would be cost prohibited to a non UAE citizen. Cadets receive somewhere around 60 sectors just in the jump seat, then 80 non flying sectors and another 120 sectors were they alternate between FP and PM. Those numbers are ball parked but my point is obvious to all with a brain that is just unstainable to any airline unless it was paid for by someone else, in this case the DXB Governement.
If EK paid a descent wage and treated us fairly they would not have to lower their standards and we would all be happy.