It goes much much deeper than policy. The vast majority of pilots have no confidence in the individual managers to turn this around. Yes men and blow-in's for a few years from Swire populate the 9th floor and don't have the airline as their first priority but rather their bonus and next Swire posting. On the 3rd floor are wannabee's. None with management experience just the ability to bend over and take whatever senior management want to insert so they can report back to their wives that they are management types. Pathetic.
If this airline is to survive and expand a completely new team (from outside the Swire world) is needed. Thats what AA and BA did and it worked. New blood for a new beginning not the same old same old Swire vampires sucking the life out of the company.