Nope for your comment that you want to fly the 777, likes its the Bee's knees.
It's a sodding aeroplane, it goes up stays up for several hours and comes down.
While you sit there, trying to stay awake as its your Nth night turn in N days.
Once the old rose tinted specs fall away it's just a job.
And out here you don't fly, just manage the plane.
I see you are just about to start a cadet program, with all due respect how about going away and learning how to do the job and getting some time in first, before questioning the entry hours into EK, which were 8500 I think when I joined 13 years ago.
Yes I vaguely do remember being in my twenties, but we went from piston to turbo prop, Small jet B737 and all the way through various different types to the A380 I'm on now, and learnt the trade, rather than just relying on the magenta line and automation.
We didn't go from Cadet straight to the 380/777.
Sadly it is people of your generation who clutch themselves at the prospect of driving said big wonder jet, and even will pay the companies concerned to do so, that has lead to the current sorry state of T&C's within the business.
As I said another one who will coming running with BSJ syndrome.