A friend just left the airline company as an instructor on the a330/340 for Airbus. He is now a Flight Instructor with Airbus and is on a rather stable roster with one month simulator training, 4 to 6 weeks line introduction (mainly with the same pilots he checked out on the sim) and then ībout 4 weeks off. No tax for the time working out of Europe ,overall quite a good salary and a perfect lifestyle, living in an old french country style house.
For applying for a job as a training captain you have to have logged a lot of Airbus hours. The pilots are hires from all over the world, just seems that being British is a disadvantage -sorry!