Hi bex88
Thanks for your help and advice so far on the ba hold pool side of things. For my opinion and as I'm in the hold pool for BA I can say the grass is 100% not greener in rotational type jobs. I currently do 20/20 or 30/30 or 14/14 flying a very lovely jet but spend almost all my time on duty sitting in hotel rooms alone waiting for midnight so I can tick off another day before going home. Sounds lovely to have "half a year off" but if I can get a job where I fly 900 hours a year and get home more than once a month and have some, even a tiny bit of control over my roster then I would sell a limb (class one medical taken into account of of course)
I fly maybe 200 hours a year and I have done this for many years. Some medium haul but mainly long haul and I LOVE the flying but hate everything else that goes along with rotational work. There is very little to enjoy outside of a stable airline in my opinion even though my salary is far more than airline ops as it always seems to be on rotation.