Originally Posted by
Frank W. Abagnale
Traf,
the purpose of the DFO letter is not to give an addressing speech to his pilots.
You know the content of the letter is nonsense.
I know the content of it is nonsense.
Every CX pilot with a pulse should know that it is nonsense.
Anyone who had maths at school knows that his letter is nonsense:
130 lost pilots, which represent 3.5% of the pilot workforce would result in around 3.700 total pilots. Cathay has less than 3.300. Even massaging the numbers a little wouldn’t result in anything close to 3.300.
The letter was not written for us.
It was written for his superiors and for the public, hence the slight industrial tone of the letter.
It wouldn’t surprise me if this letter, or some of the content of it, would make it to the SCMP at some stage, to blame us pesky, greedy pilots for a collapse of the negotiation talks.
Cathay is not interested in coming on good terms with us and I doubt they ever will.
As you rightly said, anyone younger should draw the conclusions.
He's probably lumping in KA pilots into the stats too