Since yes it is a start up, there are a few bugs being worked out. As an FO I'm making roughly $6000 without ever touching the plane. 50-80 hours gives another $1000 and 80-100 is almost $2000. The secret to this that everyone is missing is that the dollar is set to fall against the RNB (which we are paid in). If and when it does, that makes for a huge pay increase if you are working in dollars. For non-rated guys they do deduct 1200 a month since they are not allowed to bond employees but you get it back as a loyalty bonus after 3 years. You'll have lots of time off when you first start due to the time it takes to get all required licenses from China. The company atmosphere is nice, they almost seem afraid to tell you to do anything. Since we are short of guys the rostering and time off is slightly screwy and if you want to commute you may have to wait a while until things settle down unless it's a short comm like I do to Bangkok. What else? Shenzen is great if you're a single guy, tons of women. oh ya, the interview. This is the hardest part of the whole deal. They have a German company that has two guys doing the psyche. They have you have a group discussion on CRM- no sweat. Then you do one of those deals where you are stranded on the moon and have to list in order the items and their importance. Next is cards with information on them that you can't show anyone but you can discuss and you have to figure out when some outer space pyramid was built (I know right?). Finally you have to build some tinker-toy in a structured environment. This is what kills alot of people and now they have made it that you have to pass the psyche to get to the sim since the failure rate is so high. My advice is just be really NORMAL and try to have fun with it. People who are too quiet or too outspoken will fail. Sim was pretty rough and lots of fails there too. Vis approach, engine fires etc. Much harder than the one at CAL if anyone's familiar with that one. Medical check isn't that bad. Hope this answers some questions