People are moaning about 70% contracts and 25k up front ? However this is where the industry is since moons ago people offered to pay for type ratings or pay to fly schemes at Easyjet and previous airlines that offered such schemes. Unfortunately the rot set in years ago when those keen young things offered 25k up front, strangely those keen young things 5 years on are complaining about the state of the industry. What you sow, so you shall reap.
So you have 250hrs and a JOC course and absolutely no commercial airline experience and are jumping into the right hand seat of a Jet sounds like a great deal to me. In the dim and distant it was turboprops to learn your craft and then get a jet job. It seems now every 250hour cadet feels they are ready to step into a right seat jet and that an airline should be falling over themselves to roll out the red carpet and offer them a right seat ride. Sometimes you have to make a little sacrafice to get where you want in aviation, in the past that was instructing for peanuts,air charter work for even less peanuts and then if lucky a turboprop job on a small amount of peanuts. Remember what you have to offer at 250 hours, a licence and not a lot of experience. So what do you need ? An airline that will give you that experience. Jet2 will give you that, lots of flying, lots of flying to a wide variety of locations,lots of ad-hoc charter work,lots of visual approaches (yes the autopilot is taken out before 1 mile and the aircraft is flown) and the support of a lot experienced captains. There are no old dragons at Jet2 the captains here want you to do well.
Yes its initially a 70% but what has not been mentioned or has been lost in all the moaning, all captains who were 70% this year have been offered full time most of the temporary contracts have been offered full time. What does that tell you ???
The company is expanding, yes people are moving on, people are getting promoted to the LHS, no seniority list of 10 years to command, lots of good solid hard flying that is perfect if you have the grand total of 250 hours in your log book.
So look past all the moaning and see the big picture, i would bet that in 2/3 years time the 70% contract may not be 70%, you will have 1800 hours good solid flying on a 737 and you are then starting to look at how long till the LHS.
This is not a job advert but just trying to redress and balance some of the moans.