No knowledge, but here's a good guess:
- FR UK contract is not great basic pay, but with allowances and base agreement you take almost double compared to what's on paper on offer, don't expect thus a large basic pay;
- Accelerated command, please define, as company allows high hour FOs relatively fast upgrades regardless. Usually it means one winter (or part thereof) and 2 LCKs, the first of which is already after your OCC (500 hours rings a bell from forum reads as well), your second LCK is 3 months after initial LCK. Thus if you start in spring you may have a bit of a wait until winter criteria are satisfied, but if starting in late summer you will be on line in autumn, have second LCK in winter, job's a good one within 6 months (one example ). Plenty of courses for upgrade available with expansion next year, 50 aircraft I think, possibly split as part replacement, part fleet growth;
- Current base offers are subject to demand and may not be UK bases as majority of bases simply are not in UK and some UK bases have waiting lists for FOs to return to UK, however, sometimes you can be lucky or get a relative fast transfer to UK. If you are offered a UK FR deal, you will be based in UK by definition, as UK FR deals are UK base bound, thus you will not be a contractor but employee and operate out of your determined base only (99.99% of time);
- Average hours depend on base, some have lots of training going on, others less so, aircraft in base, crew already in base, etc. But safely aim for 700-850 hours with most bases operating local base agreements enabling 5 on / 4 off, alternating early or late rotations;
- Vacation entitlement as follows, one calendar month (in low season, but not during your sim month) mandatory to be chosen in preferred order by you, awarded subject to others in your base requesting the same month (e.g. December is for more often bid then e.g. November), plus a number of days you can request at random, in block of no more than 3 at a time, all awarded/declined subject to base availability, which thus may mean that a request denied initially may be available in a few months due crew movements if in a big crew base like e.g. STN;
Working conditions have, like FR customer service levels, been on the rise in last few years, slowly improving over time, more base transfers accomplished, more information forthcoming from FOPs, personal iPads, ... Would like to think that FR realise they have to treat staff better in order to retain them in order to sustain proposed growth.