1. Expect 5 3-day trips per month, often over weekends.
2. Expect about 1 reserve period every 12 months, maybe 2 initially.
3. Mainly east coast and mid east. As a Blind Line Holder, this will be your bread and butter but you will get to go elsewhere. Long-range trips will be few and far between.
4. Most sprint for the 747-400, although if you prefer shorter trips stay on the 777. You will not get a command for 12 years or so (if you're prepared to go shorthaul) so you will have plenty of time to decide what you want.
5. Likes:
Great aeroplane.
Reliable.
Datalink on the Atlantic.
Gatwick trips.
Same deck as cabin crew so pretty sociable.
Dislikes:
5 Atlantics a month is shattering.
Bunk is a cobbled together lash up at the back of the First cabin. Appalling.
Not enough long-range trips IMHO.
Not being able to achieve CAP (not something you'll have to worry about), despite doing 5 Atlantics.