The Air India gig is six on two off. They fly you only to their nearest destination (your nominated base), so if your in LAX then great, but if your in AKL or SYD then not so great (SIN would be your best bet).

One of our APC bretheren starts there at the beginning of Nov. He is the only one with jet time as the three others on his course are B1900 pilots. I ran into two chaps from Oz at our sim (we are doing their conversion training) and they are TP guy's as well, E120 FO and I don't know the other.

Rishworth is indeed the contract agency, otherwise not affiliated with Air India. Other B777 contracts with them are Korean and Vietnam. Jack Priest is the guy to speak with there and I'd phone him directly if I wanted the job.

As an expat COPA is good though; makes me wonder why they just don't pay their own guy's properly. Again, Panama and the Americas over the sub continent any day of the week. . . for me that is.