Month on month off has been a pipe dream for at least the last decade. Will never happen. That would mean ceding control. During the last 18 months I haven't flown with a single pilot who was "content or enjoying the adventure." Three years ago there were quite a few that fit that description. Now people are tolerating or working on an exit strategy. Those that are stuck are making the best of it. Plan on 90+ hours each and every month. You get no credit for ground duties towards your monthly maximums. Now we get about USD$100 for a sim event. Might pay for a few trips to Starbucks.

I have countless friends who have been given 80-95 hour months during a month with at least one week of vacation. You get zero pay credit for vacation. It is really just a guaranteed block of 7 days off in a row. You might get 3 or 4 days off for the rest of the month. So you could have 10 days of vacation plus 90 hours of hard time and get the exact same pay check as someone with no vacation and 90 hours of flying. You are expected to go into Captains discretion if it's required. Duty times were just modified to increase the start of duty time to 1:25 before the flight commences. They cleverly increased the maximum duty times on variation flights by an additional 30 minutes. So net change is a negative. Give some take a little more. Productivity is king here and nothing short of a massive management change would alter that. Think loooooong and hard before coming to the middle east. If you want an adventure go to South East Asia. I hear Vietnam is nice.