I was on a yes letter there for quite a while a few years back before Air New Zealand hired me. At the time they were amalgamating AAI with Excel, etc. into the Avion group and had a hiring freeze, so I haven't worked there but I know the drill. A good mate who now flies for Dubai royal flight was a skipper there on the 747 classic and he filled me in on the rest.

The licence is not JAR, so they will just convert your FAA ATPL. This may have changed by now, but at the time because it was a co-validation you were responsible for keeping your IFR up. I'd have just gone to Aeroservice and had a check ride in one of their sims, as bombing around in a Seneca isn't my idea of fun and likely would have cost more. Check though as that may no longer be the case, or they may have a guy there, or something else.

The base is where the contract is. If it's a CX cargo deal you'll be in HKG, Malaysian you'll be in KL, Saudia in Jeddah etc., and in a hotel. The UK work would be for the passenger charter operations I would think. You go home, or wherever you feel like going on day's off.

Do you have the pay schedules? Let me know and if not I'll get them to you.

Do you have Jerry's (O'Sullivan at Mountainhigh, they do all the hiring)email address? If not PM me and I'll PM back with his contact details.

A few of our B744 guy's have gone there on LWOP and did not like it. Our guy's kind of have their hand held here though, so going to AAI and dealing with the dynamics of that type of operation was not their thing. I like that type of flying as long as I'm getting paid and have some home time.

I shall fire up my old desktop and see if I can find my buddies brief on AAI that he gave me when I was going to go there. It will be a bit dated but I don't think the info has changed. I have conversed via email with Jerry in the past twelve months regarding short term contracts and the upcoming B777F's, he was still keen to talk so they must be doing steady hiring.

Perhaps someone else has some decent, more recent info. . .