J: I believe most of the recruitment agencies put that carrot in there to fool pilots who don't pay close attention to the contract market into believing conditions have improved.
Rishworth is well known for advertising non existing jobs, just to boost their pool of applicants, so they can show prospective airlines how "big" they are.
That being said, existing contractors for KAL are telling their pilots that there WILL be a pay rise, but no details on how much and when.
If the increase turns out to be just a few bucks, I fear it will just piss the pilots off more than maintaining the status quo...
KAL will recruit 120 expat pilots in 2013 according to themselves...
Time will tell!