The recruitment drive is about to begin. The best time to get jobs. Don't sell yourself out to Cathay. You can do better elsewhere! Hang ten for a few months! Things are looking up and so should you. Working with no housing here is a disaster on a salary that has not met inflation increases for the last 15years.

JUST LOOK AT http://www.pprune.org/terms-endearment-38/

Also right here in Asia jobs are picking up steam. Also look in the corporate market! FEDEX expanding there base here and due for big raise soon. Middle east companies are due to raise salaries soon and reduce entry requirements as they are struggling to find time on type pilots.

For those that worry about double tax & Commuting

Korean is desperate to find time on type pilots: They split your pay into multiple off shore accounts. They also roster you to be home 10days a month on a firm ticket. $14,000 US pm Cpt. (Flexible is the word)

I'm not saying the grass is greener, but there certainly is comparable grass out there! Start looking & if it suits go get them. Don't hang around and moan CX is not a Career airline anymore! (Their loss)

Because its going to be 18+ yrs to CMD here! :\
That is conservative! As based on net growth (loads of planes are only replacements) CMD for current joiners is 23yrs.

Don't believe me do the figures yourself.

May I ask where or who you have heard this from...they have said NO DEFO or DESO hiring until 2012 or 2013...only cadets are being hired.

I think he is talking to the cadets that have 1000s of hours, yep thats right, there are guys joining the cadet scheme with thousands of hours!

For those who have little to no flying experience, yep, come to cathay, get your training paid for, stay for six years, leave with 1000s hours widebody experience and get a job that pays well somewhere you want to live because HKG is fun for a year or two but then the lifestyle gets boring especially when sitting next to someone on twice your salary doing the same job.

Housing allowance is at over 50K a month as it f****ng should be as working as a pilot in your home country you would expect a descent home, the cx allowance just gets you that, but only just.

If you join as a cadet expect to live in a shared house or some shoe box of a place if you want to be on your own with your family, not a nice one either. The place I live is 650 square feet, in an ok area and cost over GBP1/2 million. I dont want to live here but it is the best I could do WITH the housing allowance.

For pilots with 300 hours, CX is a good choice for sure. Where else on Earth can you fly a 777 in your 20s?:ok:
Living in a shoe box is still better than working as a crash pad regional pilot in the US, just my 2 cents.

Maybe I cant even afford a room in my base with the regional pay :ugh:

I think the point is people are still taking the job and working essentially for free without housing, when two years earlier cx was hiring pilots with the same experience and offering housing allowances. If you have an ATP and thousands of hours don't whore yourself out to babysit an autopilot in a widebody.

That's ture, thousands of hours can get you a better pay with coperates or maybe companies in the middle east

It is alright to join CX for kids who had just received their commercial.
Once the regional career is started, better not to fly all the way to the fragrant harbour