If anyone thinks an AF447 accident can't happen at CX, they haven't really paid attention to the inexorable overall decline in the experience levels. Thirty years ago, you needed either significant military jet experience, or 4-5 thousand hours with jet time mandatory to get hired at CX. Now, we daily have flights with inexperienced FO's, and a newbie SO who quite often doesn't know his emergency memory items. I'm sure the paying public would love to know that when they are resting during the night over the North Pacific or the Himalayas, the experience level up front is frequently 20% of what it was those 30 years ago. Further, when the relief FO goes to the toilet, you can have a brand new SO, perhaps 21 yrs old, sitting there with a high likelihood of failing to know what to do if certain emergencies occur. This is not speculation. It is fact based on documented experience. CX management have allowed the safety of this airline to diminish. Fact. And it is still declining.
Last edited by mngmt mole; 16th Feb 2018 at 13:00.