DEFO only on freighters, based in bases other than HK. Time to dust off that other passport you have lurking in the bottom of the drawer?
"DEFO only on freighters" doesn't exist anymore. All DEFO's hired after 01.01.08 are on the Unified FO scale/contract, and may fly freighters or pax as the company sees fit.
Given, those hired onto the 744 fleet will (for obvious economic reasons) mostly fly freighters; but by no means exclusively. But those hired onto the 777 and Airbus will fly passengers only; seeing that we don't have any of the 777F or airbus freighters.