Airbus family is a good guarantee of a future job opportunity.
B744 is a beauty to fly. A320 are much more jobs to find...
Nonsense, unless you want to end up as a contract captain on the A320 in rural China! Don't get me wrong, China is nice... but only for a nightstop. I certainly would not want to
live there for months or years.
I have flown >2000 hours on orange A319's but if I now had to go and look for a A320 family job again it would very difficult! Most airlines in Europe that fly A320's are either sh!t (Vueling-Click/Wizzair) or they are sh!t and will not hire people with experience, like sleazyJet. These companies only look for the green 200 hour TT type of pilots that they can scam for some kind of sh!tty "flexicrew" P4T deal.
Having experience on a A320 is actually a disadvantage!
Perhaps the only exceptions are some Middle Eastern carriers that fly the Airbus like EK, EY and QF, but my guess is that these carriers will also happily take you with 744 wide body experience and put you on the 777!
If it's a decent outfit and if you think you will like the long haul lifestyle, go for the 744 especially if the type rating is paid by the employer!
