If you like
If you like working all day long with people so limited in English they barely understand sentences like “Can I please have an orange juice?”,
If you like sitting in a cockpit with a fellow pilot who cannot answer/challenge the normal check lists in English,
If you enjoy that so-called “instructors”, with a 50% of the time occurrence, drop the gear down when you are at the controls at 5.000 feet without letting you know their idea beforehand and just because they are constantly panicking to be to high on profile,
If you appreciate that almost half of the company e-mails you receive have the word “punishment” in the subject,
If you can bear that the “punishment” threat is about things not allowed in the cockpit like reading newspapers etc. while half of the company instructors read newspapers, smoke like chimneys etc. in the cockpits,
If you find acceptable that covering 100% of the cockpit windows with newspapers takes place on every single flight implying that you have to navigate around cb’s without basic visual clues,
If you can take Beijing’s pollution which never goes below the highest levels of any western city and can go up to ten times (yes ten times) the alert levels,
If you can sleep in company accommodation similar to what you would have experienced in the army 30 years ago,
If you can refrain from google, facebook, gmail, local newspapers from your country because all these are simply blocked on the internet in China,
If you find normal to be “trained” during over a year in order to join a company in a position you have occupied for over two decades in previous airlines. Training meaning sitting on a jumpseat or right seat or left seat randomly depending on the “qualification” of the pilot(s) you are assigned with that day,
If you can take the risk of being medically rejected at a rate of 50% even if you are in the shape of a marathon runner,
If you are pleased to undergo countless medical checks like ECGs, stress ECGs, brain MRI (yes, you are reading well: brain MRI), heart, kidney, thyroid echographies etc. all at the risk one small parameter going slightly out of the norm and then the only thing you will know is that you stop flying (and being paid) for weeks, months, years or ever, no one telling you exactly what is possibly wrong with your health,
If you like your roster being hidden from you until one day before the 15 days period it applies to and then again and again never having a clue of what you are doing for more than 15 days ahead and eventually one day only ahead,
If you count on fly long-haul as per your curriculum and life so far and you accept you end up flying up and down legs across China,
If you enjoy that a bunch of young secretaries take hold of every aspect of your professional life and the implications it has on your private life simply because they are the only ones in the company speaking some English,
If you appreciate that the results of this situation are that you are being treated like a school kid by people 20 years younger than you and having no clue to what a pilot environment is,
If you enjoy junk food in aluminum trays with plastic fork and knife,
If you think it is normal you have a sim session and then sit in the debrief room waiting for the instructor and the guy simply does not show up having left without even saying good-bye,
If you prefer to travel in packed economy class on a ten hour flight when your “colleague” pilots don’t want to grant you the empty business seat left over (3 pilots with 2 business seats for rest),
Then Hainan Airlines is your recommended next job