Not to mention that as long as you are an expat pilot in a foreign country/airline, you are the uninvited guest. Everyone might smile and be polite but lets be real here. You are only wanted because you are nessecary to keep the wheels turning. That is why asian carriers (many of them) have a nasty history of changing conracts and conditions midstream, and you off course have no rights! My advise to anyone asiabound is to make sure you are offered the same contract as everyone else. talk to pilots already there. I myself exitedly accepted a position and my own naiv attitude bit me hard where the sun don't shine. When I showed up to start the job I discovered most other pilots were on a contract with higher wages and twice as much annual leave as me.