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Air Profit
Let's distill this down to the basic facts. 1) the CX crew screwed it up, big time (and possibly the UA, but CX was the instigator of the entire mess). and 2) this is the consequence of a company management that long ago abrogated any concern for experience and judgement in the cockpit. We are becoming largely an airline of cadet pilots who have known no other working environment, and who's ability to deal with these sort of situations is compromised by rote learning and checking. Ultimately, there is just nothing like the experience you get in the military, or bug smashing your way around the bush for a few years. CX will feature more and more in such events until the inevitable front page headline. Tick tock...
Indeed! This is the bottom line. It’s all well and good to have an academic discussion and Monday morning quarterback, but at the end of the day, CX crews are sometimes not up to the task. This is a byproduct of hiring low or no experience pilots and then compounding that with fatigue from long haul flying and other CMP induced treats. No, none of us are perfect and all are capable of mistakes, but that doesn’t excuse the piss poor experience levels and abysmal quality of CX’s hiring in the last 5-10 years. It has gotten progressively worse and appears that will continue to be the case. It’s pure CX arrogance that thinks it can continue to do this and get away with it indefinitely. Watch this space...