All this means is that if they’ve been stealing from you for long enough, they are going to give a little bit of it back. Most others get a mere inflationary adjustment, except the pilots, most of whom haven’t had their pay increased for inflation in years, and most of those are not on an expat package.
Same old, same old from the Swire Swine. They stuff their coffers in the UK with fuel hedging “losses”, take massive amounts of cash (many billions USD) off the CX balance sheet, and cry poor to their staff for concessions. If you think it any other way, then the joke is on you.