Similar package arriving at the mother company soon. Just not politically intelligent to do it right now.
Why not? Are you saying trainers are in it for the money and will resign (where have I heard that rhetoric) if the package is reduced? Are union members breaking the training ban and facing the rebuke of their colleagues just for that extra 5 or 10 percent pay? It's for the Status, the right to have a Cathay Business Card (can someone pleeeeeease tell me why pilots need business cards) that has the word "Training" Captain on it.
I look forward to the usual responses - "there will be a long queue outside the DFO's offfice of trainers with their resignations in hand if the package is reduced...blah blah" - most probably from the very trainers who signed "The" letter and went quietly on with their jobs when CX called their bluff.