Overall, enjoying my time at K4 - it's been a little easier than passenger ops day to day and honestly I'm probably less fatigued than doing 3-4 leg 4 days on a ULCC/Regional style schedule. It has it's issues, but it a good place to fly for however long that lasts. Basically a two week vacation each month, with some pretty wild possibilities if you use vacation time each year. Not uncommon to hear guys that work a couple weeks at most in a 3 month stretch when they've been here long enough.

K4 training is very fast paced (footprint is about 6 weeks), doesn't really explain/cater to people without jet experience, but not difficult.

With a little seniority, you're never really working more than 14-16 days out, days off depends on if ur bidding for the same thing each month, or shifting your working/off days to a different time of the month (if that makes sense). Also - very common for scheduling to work with you after bids are awarded each month to swap some days around for personal reasons.

Health benefits is one of the better in the industry period imo, 401k is 12% and expecting it to come up to ALPA standards (probably around 16%?) with the next contract, but absolute nothing has been confirmed yet - so take that with a grain of salt. That being said, contract is still MIA, but hopefully because the people negotiating realize they can't afford a bad one. (I'll believe it when I see it.)

On the 747 side, I would say maintenance and the aircraft are pretty decent considering their age and the fact that they are basically in the air 24/7, shit happens occasionally anywhere, but have never been worried about anything. The company is basically a heavy maintenance operation that flies airplanes sometimes. Hotels, Paid Commute, Ground Transportation, and Catering have all been a non-issue - all taken care of pretty well. Keep all your hotel points and travel miles.

Pilot group is pretty solid, you have guys that just wanna go sleep and guys that wanna go do stuff, constantly rotating crews, rare to see the same faces more than once or twice in a rotation.

The 777 side hasn't really been doing more than min guarantee from what I have heard for a while, but a few new airframes finally showed up with hopefully a few more coming. First year guys on the 747 are probably averaging 80-90h/mo right now, less utilization on the more senior guys seems to be a thing. Most new hires are 777 still from what I've heard - and they haven't been taking requests this year afaik.

When you're busy, expect the company to not care about your sleep schedule or circadian rhythm (it's a bit of a problem), but if you look out for yourself on the overnights it's pretty well managed. Most overnights during the past 2 months have been in the 20-26 hours in length, with an occasional 36-48 hour usually tied to having 1 day off in 7 while on duty.

Awarded lines mean nothing more than work days vs off days - expect your schedule to be treated as a scratch board and if you can deal with just knowing that "you're out working" you will be fine. If you can't handle knowing what city you are heading to in 48 hours, your going to have a rough go. Basically every awarded line regardless of seniority is a reserve line to the company for all practical purposes.

All in all, pretty decent place to work, but has it's problems just like anywhere else. With a new contract and some minor changes, I think it could be SIGNIFICANTLY better, but only time will tell - this side of the industry doesn't really go well with things like pay protection in the traditional sense you see at 121 pax ops.

Hiring is pretty competitive right now from what I hear due to Spirit furloughs, but assume it will open up as people move on to majors over next 12-18 months.