FlyingOW - This is what we were told on the Open day, all F/O's from now on will be based in Hong Kong allthough this could change again.
with regards to experience they said they would consider anyone with about 2000 hours with approx 1000 on an aircraft such as the Boeing 737. Allthough i do know for a fact that they have taken on some guys with considerable less than this - and i beleave one of them was straight out of OAT and they are currently S/O's. They did state that they will not be taking on any further S/O's.
The plan is to have 8 aircraft by the end of 2007 and a total of 25 aircraft by the end of 2008 which would need in the order of 1000 flight deck crew in order to crew all the flight's.
Hope this helps.
brgds
W.G