Self preservation yes... to a degree.
Too many of those fatigue calls and of course, you'll get called into the office on a precious day off to explain your lack of productivity and probably get the new warning letter because of it. A few of those, and you could be told, "Maybe you're not the type of pilot Emirates wants"!!!
Then what?? Rock and hard place especially for those with kids. More than a handful of guys won't leave even though they have no life at home at all simply because the kids are only in 3rd grade and will want to have them finish up to high school. Emirates has them chained to the rowing oars......
Seems each month gets about 30-60 minutes added to the rosters.
Emirates needs a world recession again with many airlines going out of business, but I don't really think that's going to happen in the next two years. By then, the guys will be flying 110 hours a month.
Curious what will happen when those guys who approach 900 plus the bunk conversion time, whose numbers are increasing monthly.... when will they simply run out of time to fly for the year. I'd think they're good til November but ya never know....
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