IFTA
I know a little about
IFTA. I have a good friend who worked there, I applied there, and interviewed there (it wasn't hiring at the time). IFTA, aka Air Staff, Inc., is one of the best instructing gigs around. The place is a clone of Airline Training Center Arizona in Goodyear. No wonder - ANA had been sending its students to be trained at ATCA and decided to start up its own facilities.
Truly state-of-the-art facilities. I visited there ten years ago when the paint was barely dry. A36 Bonanzas and B58 Barons as equipment. Motivated students. Good pay and benies. Other nationalities besides Japanese are represented at IFTA. I know that Alitalia was sending students to IFTA for a while.
The place looks for experienced instructors, but that doesn't mean that you need 3549 hours of dual given to get hired. I know of people with far less than that who have worked there. The place trains
ab initio airline students in the airline's way of flying, so the standardization will be strict. But it won't be impossible. From what I understand, nothing like the other Japanese airline school in Napa.
Perhaps the primary con would be . . . . Bakersfield.
From what I know about IFTA I would recommend it highly as a great place for an instructor to hang his/her helmet and goggles for at least a while, if not for the long term. I very well might have if things had taken a different direction for me.
Hope that helps a little.