Par usual, Traf is 100% correct!!!
Yet, you won’t get any of the management sychophants on here to refute what he writes. Nope, they’ll just guise themselves anonymously as pilots and try to pit one group against the other... Expat vs HKPA, Based vs Hong Kong, KA vs CX vs AHK, ground staff vs flight crew, etc.
They know nothing else. All they do is spin the same tired loom over and over. Divide and conquer, deceive with misleading statements, crank down on employees, costs too high, etc. There is not an ounce of original thought or creativity on the whole of the 9th floor or on the board. They simply don’t know what to do, so they just stand there like deer in the headlights. They have no survival instincts. They just read about what was done in the past in the “playbook” rinse and repeat. Then, the hope is that they can escape with their big bonuses before the chickens come home to roost. It worked for the last guys, why shouldn’t it work for them?
But somehow, it’s different this time for employees. Now, we are serious. Sorry, we all know you have cried “wolf” one too many times. We’ve all seen this before, and nobody is buying it, except maybe that dancing idiot on the float and other 3rd floor wannabes.
It’s just tiring, the whole thing! How about this? You leave us alone and we’ll do the same in return. Give us the same pay raises you give the ground staff each year, and you take whatever bonuses you can justify. Let the AOAs handle the rostering since it’s obvious ICM has no idea how to run the CMP, and let us know when you want to talk about opening bases and switching to hourly pay. Until then, there is nothing to talk about. Oh, you might want to up the HKPA a bit so your cheapest pilots stop leaving in droves, but we’ll leave that for you to figure out. Any questions?