When I read threads like this, my immediate reaction is that an airline is only as good as the management want it to be. And jurking around with contracts, no hotel bookings, per diems and so on can all be sampled under one word: mismanagement.
I agree that 1 months on - 1 months off is driving your life-style to a different level. All of us who have tried it would gladly work such a roster pattern. When NAS take another direction with 8 weeks on - and-what- do-I-know-off, they are only "shooting themselves in the foot". The international pilot market is screeming for pilots. Not able to, or not wanting to understand the simple fact of how the flight crew machine works, will back-fire on any management if they do not get a wake-up call. Obviously, the NAS management have not listened to the alarm clock
