Everything GusHoneyBun said is true.
Small differences for contract FO's:
I guess at the end of the month what you have on your bank account is around +/- €4400,-.
There's no housing or housing allowance. It's hard to rent something for 7/8 months so start early.
Scheduling is the same.
Summer or full-time.
Just summer, small chance of extension i guess around 5% based on the previous 3-4 years. Only Belgian nationals get full-time contracts.
Blanc is a lovely system.
Basically your schedule is 6-7 days on, 3 days off.
There's no logic so one day youre doing an early flight, the next day youre doing a night flight.
Blanc is a standby day from 0600 to 2200 but you have 2 hours if they call you. Problem is, they can call you at 0601 or they can call you at 2159 and you can still do a tenerife up and down.
Usually theyre used in the middle of your schedule when you go back from night flight to early morning flight. You hardly ever get called so not much worries.
all things considered,
It's a great airline to fly for as an FO. Usually its just up and down, with a few nightstops each month.