Something else that folks should be aware of is the overall earnings throughout the life of the contract, you have to subtract $14,000USD that you will pay for the type rating plus all the cost of your accommodation during such training event and also consider the reduced income (about 50%) during the 3 to 4 months you will be at training with KAL, training that has a typical 50% to 80% failure rate (according to the posts of some of their pilots here at PPrune) well, if you are furloughed I guess! but otherwise NOT