I actually work for John Holland Water and there is an article on the intranet about the John Holland aviation division winning the contract to do maintenance for Tiger Airways. I'm not sure if any of you have heard about it. I will post the article tomorrow if you want.
I can't really comment on working conditions since I work for John Holland Water which is a different business unit to John Holland Aviation but I guess it would be sort of similar. I don't know of any vacancies at the very moment but can keep you updated.
JHW - good division. Absolutely brilliant at alliance type contracting which currently has a great appeal to a market that is used to lump sum contracts and not much more in terms of pricing sophistication.
Selling people on the idea is much moire difficult of course, but once they see the benefits then there's no stopping them.