AJX, the new company formed out of the comination of ANA and JP express and AJX (PAX), has reflected at their shrinking staffing levels and appalling recruiting rate and has released a revised policy statement relating to days off, laundry, duty times, currency fluctuation policy, commute policy and days off allocation policy.
Someone else may wish to summarize it better, but it's all bad.
1. You cannot arrive in Japan on the day you start work for safety reasons and this will "strictly" be enforced. You can however, fly all night for AJX arrive in the morning at a destinataion, stay anywhere from 8 to 12 hours and then fly back the same night. If you live in Europe. the USA or Australia, you will be leaving home a day earlier so as you can utilize you commute day by sitting on your butt in Japan for about 36 hours. Don't forget you're paying for the hotel.
When all is said and done, we lose a day, get given two commute days, both of which we can't use.
The extra commute days that we gain or lose however you see it are subjext to AJX's business model. Which means when the rest of the guys leave they can't do it!
2. We lose $500 per month, but we get Free LAUNDRY!
3. Now if you happen to be sick after July 1st, you have to go visit their AJX doctor and he may not.....'Concur'
4. AJX will be streamlining the days off to allocate them months in advance, so you can forget your plans and your life.
5. On your last day of work you "will be available for duty"
6. I haven't even touched on the comedy of the exchange rate!
7. And they finish off with:
We trust that you will find these changes to your satisfaction and we thank you for your understanding and patience during the last few months while Air Japan were working on these changes.
Kind regards
I find their propsals a cheap trick and an awful attempt at a childish con, it's more dissappointing than anything. Bye bye hello Kitty Land.