WK. "Short haul flying there is a lot of hard work"? C'mon man! As opposed to what most of us do here.....short haul, medium haul, long haul, ultra long haul, over up to 12 time zone changes, with MINIMUM time off, month in and month out, without credit for ground schools, online training, manual handling sims or PPC two day sims.
But on second thought, you're right. Tough European airports with modern ATC and within two maybe three time zone changes (with a few exceptions of course). Who would want to do that? Where's the professional challenges in that? And of course with grievance procedures in place, where's that challenge? And the challenges of living a healthy lifestyle....again boring.
