Gnadenburg, My response was to your comment about why didn’t those pilots go to the “incumbents” paying double.
When the exodus from Malaysia came in 2015 China did have a block on Malaysian passport holders due to a certain aircraft, still missing, that had a few chinese nationals onboard.
If you meant to come and join the local competition who pay double? for an experienced captain from a SE Asian low cost carrier or Malaysian airlines(not low cost btw)I don’t think they would want to join CX as an SO for a significantly lower salary than a DEC at HKA/HKE. Or join KA as an FO flying a clapped out 330 into nanjing or hangzhou to then upgrade on the A321 to go to jinan or ningbo.
The guys “bunk bedding” it ,as you put it ,share flats in Tung Chung/DB and are commuting as they are on a package that gives them 10 days at home in KL/MNL/ CGK/BKK and even as far as Joburg and London.
So your point is still moot as they are happier at HKA and not because there’re afraid of not meeting your “high standards” or fear of the “colonial check and training system”.