I heard that Air Asia also require that all their first officers spend their days off making Nike trainers in a sweatshop in KL. Any truth to this?
If you work overseas, and have been recruited in the UK to do so, you should be on Expat terms (higher salary, living accomodation, tropical clothing allowance, several free flights a year, etc) People happily trotting off to the current deal (none of the aforementioned terms) arent giving themselves enough credit, once AA know they can get away with this behaviour, it will become an industry norm. Good luck to you, but youre not just lowering the bar for yourselves but other pilots as well.