Thanks Bereal...
I have a few mates in Korean.
I have a left hand seat in a wide body in an Aussie airline so until our exalted leadership send us broke I will stick around but it was an ambition to fly out of Europe.
I am too old and too set up with kids and schools etc and frankly too lazy to do all the work required
Re the ATR experienced people in Virgin - if I understood what you wrote you had some mates already in virgin who wanted to be involved but didn't get an opportunity. Skywest was the company that set up the operation with the 457's and they were not owned by Virgin at that stage, so the whole leave without pay, training up replacements in virgin stuff would have been far too hard given the other stuff going on at the time