@GoreTex
This discussion exists since the early 2000's(maybe even before).
The problem with introducing overseas bases(Europe/US/Asia) is that most likely EVERY pilot want'S to have one of this bases and you create war within the company.
The old guys insist on "grandfather rights" to have this new opened bases, the new joiners would only join if such a base is guaranteed....
Over all, I don't think that would work and the ME carriers know about that.
Unfortunately the bloody pilot bunch(us
) is a very strange group of professionals. Very greedy, always want to have the better deal, then still complain about it and looking for even greener places to go.
Simply nobody really can please the majority of us - that's my experience of nearly 30 years of airline business and somehow I even slowly understand some management point of view about our workgroup(the pilot "haters").