Schedule: It's set up as a commuting contract so you work 5 days on/1 day off for 4-6 weeks then you have 10 days - 3 weeks off. There were some options for the length of your work/off days. The total contractual days off per year is 144 (120 days off plus 24 vacation days). When I was there they also introduced a "local" schedule choice where you'd get 10 days off/month and have your 24 vacation days to take at some point in the year. Similar to what a local pilot would have.
Benefits: Depends on your contract company. I was with Parc. We had medical (BUPA) and a small pension plan that Parc contributed to. Can't remember the percentage but I ended up at the end of the contract with about an extra month of money.
Overtime: There is overtime in the contract. Can't remember what the threshhold was, but you'll never hit it.
Layovers: When I started we did 1 or 2 a month. By the end of the contract we were doing ~10/month. I'm told it's less again now as they've cut back a lot of flying due to crew shortages.
Crews: Not sure what you mean here. When I was there it was all contract crews except a dozen or so Japanese captains who were the trainers/managers. Towards the end of my time they brought in a few Japanese FOs. I believe there a more now. Some of the Japanese FOs are captains now too I think.
Hours per month: ~50 in the logbook. Duty days were 7-9 hours (either morning or afternoon shift) and normally 3-5 sectors.
Employee Treatment: Was pretty good when I was there. There was an adjustment period for both groups but we generally all got along. There were a few exceptions in both groups. You definitely need to remember that you work for a Japanese company and things are done differently. I've heard rumours that things aren't as good as they were when I was there, but I have no first hand knowledge.
Training: 3 months? that would be nice. More like 6 or more. 6 is the standard. Some guys were stretched out to 9-10 months. That being said, it's not very busy training. Lots of days off in between sim sessions, and time off between sim, medical, line training...etc.
Interview/sim eval: Standard and not difficult. It's the 2-day medical that's interesting.
White gloves: The Japanese wear them. You don't have to. Some people did, some didn't.
All my information is 3 years old so may have changed.
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