PPJN figures:
What you see on ppjn.com is only for european bases, before taxes, no LOL, no pension, no social security...
Variety in the routes:
This is a big issue. Since the crisis, everybody starts and finishes at their base hence there is no much variety in routes. Basically people fly the same route 99% of the time.
Hotels:
Once again, all has gone crap since the crisis. Expect 3 stars hotel at the airport (whereas in the good old times it was 4-5 star hotels downtown the cities).
Bases:
They close the base as soon as there is a change in the network. As a consequence, people are rebased anywhere else with one month notice. As mentioned above, that's a take it or leave it policy.
Roster:
Expect to be used 3 weeks a month and that's it.
Nice place to work?
Maintenance is good, people are always payed on time, the roster is still issued for 3 months (more or less), nice people to work with (OPS, pilots, etc). However, it's cargo from 7pm to 9am, working in old and extremely noisy turboprops, cold environment, no toilets on board, no crewfood, hotels are low quality, long time away from home, no variety in the routes (maybe 2 or 3 airfields), no security with your base, etc.
Before the crisis it was a great place to work and now it's an OK place to work, The majority will definitely leave the company as soon as the market picks up.
Farnair is now probably better than Air Contractors...