Ice, I didn't say that conversion from 73 to triple was difficult but I will say that having flown "heavies" for years before joining EK is that operating a 777 in some of the places we operate them into can be challenging no matter how experienced you are.
What I was pointing out however is that we should be looking after the good guys that we already have.
I often fly with First Officers here that meet the age and hours requirement plus the "seniority" and ability required to be a captain only to be frozen because we can't attract suitably qualified pilots to replace them in the right hand seat once they move over and instead EK has to lower itself to stalking guys on social media to see if they want to join as DECs, now that's wrong no matter which side of the fence you're sitting on!