A strong letter. Now why didn't I think of that !!!
Yup.....THAT'll Show 'em.
Here's the plan. Train refugee (who will do anything to escape where they are) and indigenous pilots (who've bought into some of the kool aid and really don't know any better) on POS 18. Training your replacements who don't yet know their throat's been cut by those who have come before them and really have no idea what the place is like. Offer a few cookies down the road to the aging replacement pilots to string them along--at ever declining conditions reference any previous contracts but enough to hang on to them until the 'Las Vegas' syndrome kicks in and they're entrenched. Staying in the trap they've made for themselves. Chasing a fleeting carrot. Gotta hand it to them; pretty shrewd on the company's part. But the internet is a wonderful thing and at least now the fish biting at the bait know that cost of living is WAYYYYYYY high in HKG and that they are probably better off almost anywhere else (at least with what they're getting paid reference the COLA). Perhaps the 'you might get a base' con will work--apparently it works amongst folks who've been here a while and should know better--so there you are.
I have no sympathy whatsoever for anyone who joined in the modern internet age. Nor will I listen to any bee hatching or whining. Unlike some in the past you knew damn well what you were getting into so suck it up or leave.
What are the options for everyone else ? Well, letters ain't gonna do it. Perhaps a scab list might provide some deterrent but (unlike other places) that doesn't seem to have much effect here.
The clock is ticking--can the Company get its manning squared away before older guys punch out. Training their replacements is essential.
SO, given the imposition of POS 18 and now this, the options are:
Strike
Convince an external regulator or POI (either individually or as the Union) that the training draft creates a hazardous environment for operations within THEIR country (better have some facts and evidence to back this up).
Resign yourself to the fact that the HKAOA has become irrelevant as a collective negotiating body and has become more of a welfare and insurance group with some voice on more trivial matters. If this bothers you to the point of consternation it's probably best to leave now before you lose more of your life.