Regarding upgrades: Fiji Airways does not upgrade expats. Whatever contract you are hired on you shall remain on. EOS. Do not let anyone convince you otherwise. If you are a captain you might be selected as an instructor or checker. That happens, for those with qualifications and experience. Longreach seems to be telling their contractees that they might get upgraded. The folks that I met at Longreach seemed pretty straight up, so I cannot fathom why they would lie like that. It really wrecked their credibility with me. Either they have bad information or they are fishing. Either way, it is irresponsible for them to announce something like that that is patently untrue. Could upgrades happen in the future? Yes. Could you win the lottery. Yes. Is that likely? No. To apply history as a guide: the last expat who was upgraded was almost two decades ago.