Originally Posted by
Dilbert68
Sam Ting Wong,
You Sir, are a complete moron.
An O day is not a day off, my O days are regularly converted to duties. You cannot plan anything on an O day because it is a form of reserve. Call 8929 and you O day is now changed to work. I have never heard of another airline that operates this way an neither has Jeppesen, their software had no idea how to cope.
Only a management apologist idiot like you would consider an O day a day off.
Go back into your hole.
Dilbert is correct. O days are an industry nonstandard. They are free reserve and should not exist. Pilots should have duties, days off, or reserve. Reserve should never be touching a duty. It’s a stand alone. That there is no credit associated with reserve is another industry nonstandard. All of these and many more (industry nonstandards) are what drives the sickness rates at CX so high. To argue otherwise is foolhardy and wishful thinking by the Company. CX has always considered itself somehow special and different when it comes to employing pilots. Well, that is certainly true, but not in a good way as used to be the case.