Standard act of CX--take something away and then try to sell it back to you.
SO
You get a base that's not a base; a 'commuting roster' without the benefit of having housing in HKG OR the protection of really being on a base. And I'll bet they find a way to chisel around the 'commuting roster' with more time on and less time off with the CMP. So you lose the productivity of operating people to and from what would have been a base (by having to effectively deadhead people to HKG and back) while these people also take the commute time out of hide and spend more time on the road and on a string at the behest of the company.
Kinda like a loophole around reverse rostering which would violate the laws of most of the places we base. Be interesting to investigate the legalities of the 'plan.'
I smell yet another scam.