If things change just a little, this would be the ultimate expat job. Imagine a expat contract were people actually speak english. I think the problem with Cebu is besides being a low cost run by a rich chinese family(penny pinchers) is lack of experience dealing with expat pilots. There used to dealing with thier own people which are very laid back and probably happy to be flying at home. If they had any brains if they copied vietnam airlines sistem 6 on 2 off/ onn the F/O side match the money, offered upgrade/transition in the case of ATR crews and insurance they would not be bleeding for crews. They just have to understand the reality of paying international rates for flight crews expats or locals. Also if they payed local crews expat terms they would have all their crews working overseas back home. Im sure thier waiting to see the effect of the Air Asia operation, and how it effects crew attrition, market share too see how to proceed.On the positive side their not complicating themselves with recruiting. Skpe interview, HR and TECH (5 quick questions). If you pass they send you a tkt, put you up in a hotel, and start the license process. No time wasted on travel/ interview etc etc any other job in Asia is at least 5 days travel, in the case of Air Asia / Tiger/Jetstar/Vietnam/Air Astana/HK airlines/Sin Cargo/ pay your own way to the interview thats if you can get the time off(Air Astana and HK give you hotel). Cost of living in manila also is very low compared to SIN/HKG/SGN.Only time will tell