In addition, if you are assigned a LH fleet you will be engagement frozen for a minimum of 5yrs and therefore unable to successfully bid for a SH command.
Untrue if you were bidding for SH Command in the last annual bid. Type freezes were lifted for certain fleets. A 1 year 747 FO who bid for Airbus Command at LHR or LGW in the last bid would have got it (assuming that they met the minimum requirements in terms of flying hours).
All I can say to you guys, as someone that has moved from EK to BA, is that yes, I earn less but I honestly couldn't give a monkeys. I've got a normal life in a civilised, fair country again. I have days off, I have a social life again, I see my family & my friends and I don't feel like I am being robbed by my employer on a daily basis. Most of all I am genuinely home and am being true to myself, rather than pretending I like the sorry excuse for a life that I was leading.