Just a small point Fish, be it Emirates or many many other Airlines, pilots have gone thru a huge selection process and a huge training process to go from the right to left seat. Example (and I stess this is only an example), if a Captain from BA or QF came to Emirates, is he OK to fly your planes? He does it every day with his airline, so why not with yours???? No decent airline I know makes it an easy "jump" three feet left (as you put it), so if some one has done it before, why cant they do it direct with Emirates?
