Who cares how long the training is???
before I came here I was timing out every year flying like a madman, I got my entire salary (not training pay, captains pay from day one) from the day I arrived in Tokyo and a furnished apartment with my family here most of the training period, lots of days off in between class/sim in one of the most interesting cities with some great restaurants and night life.......! Maybe you guys can't live without being in a freaking cockpit for a 1,000 hours a year, I sure as hell didn't have a problem at all taking a break.
And at the end of it all when the training period is just a vague memory, I'm not in China or the Middle East
