You only see the account when you grasp a Contract Pilot working for a Asian Company. The mimimum requirement for joining is in a A320/B737NG about 7000 hours in total, 2000 hours of Jet operation minimum and 500 hrs Command on type. So you are at least 12 years in the Industrie to achieve that expirience. If you want to grasp a A330/B767 then you should add have about 8000 hrs total and 3000hrs heavy 500 hrs type time. So add another one or two years. Then you have some other pain....
Diffrent culture you work in. You are the one who is not at home for a extended time and you allways get the bad schedule. It is amazing how a computer of the rostering department finds the Golf-course suitable destination never for you just for your Asian counterpart. In case of the Sars or the Asian Bird flu: You fly there where the germs are. Amazing how the Computer analyzes that himself. If you go and tell the Supervisor that the Schedule is not done equal then you will find yourself either in a even worse schedule so you have problems to go home once a month or, you find yourself that the contract is not extended after the 12 months period and you look for another job. That is a proven fact. I do not complain, You to try it but there downsides to consider when you go East.... If You are behind money only then go where the the price tag is the highest. Moderate will do for me......
The takehome for a A340/MD11/B744 is about 13.500 US$ a month. For a A320/B737 it is about US$ 9000. Just to complete the subject.
Good luck in your endavour
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