Originally Posted by
Krone
Yep all a wind up . KA getting equal staff travel prioity , remember that one?
Now all KA crew moving to CX , a wind up?
KA crew to be "integrated" into the CX system, a wind up?
You might be eating your words by the end of 2018 .
CX and KA do not get EQUAL staff travel benefits, KA get BETTER travel benefits, something the DPA negotiated behind the back of every CX pilot.
KA pilots gets paid more than CX pilots, have better benefits, and are more expensive and are less productive.
CX and KA share the same terminal as well, the same runways, etc fact that KA will be housed inside CX city means nothing. It is just sharing office space, KA guys are salivating at the bit and making rumors up.
Under CAD 360 each AOC holder must have its own briefing room. Each AOC holder MUST have their OWN pilots, you cannot "lead" pilots from one AOC holder to the other, they physically have to be inducted into the other AOC. That is exactly what has happened before when CX managers went to KA, when KA pilots came to CX (they had to do another conversion course, emergency procedures, line checks etc). Same happened when CX SO went to KA to do their FO upgrades.
Fact is that CX wanted to have no dispatch area at all (they closed it during SARS as a cost savings), they wanted everyone to go straight to the aircraft (which CX trialed this years on a number of flights) as running the security clearance at CX city and KA house costs millions . They have reduced that now by having CX/KA share the same security screening. HKIA said they could not accept crews going straight to the aircraft for the foreseeable future due to T2 being demolished and T1 going into over load.
Do you know that the CX benefits center is being moved to KA house ? and all they will have in CX city is computer terminals for staff to interact with ? They are making it harder for staff to access benefits to reduce costs.
Everything is about reducing costs, not improving things for staff.