Ever so slowly, senior First Officers at Cathay Dragon, are rationalising the corporate direction ( or lack of for KA ) and the stark circumstances of what does a contracting airline mean for command promotion? The reality unfolding seems to be there may never again be command opportunities at KA for many. Some bang-on about slowing down to more "normal" promotion time frames but there is nothing in the picture that indicates there will be any short, medium or long term promotion. It's dark times !
Now, a few weeks ago, we were told there would be NO recruiting for the forseeable future at Cathay Dragon. Yet here we are on a wannabee thread and the blinded are still talking of time to command !
New joiners to KA are cheap and disposable seat-fillers. Recent joiners will never obtain command in the current direction. Read again- NEVER obtain a command ! Their new role is to minimise lucrative overtime payments to Local Contact and B scale First Officers.
For the most senior F/O's, the glimmer of hope for command promotion was huge uptake of part time schemes by incumbent B Scale Capt's. Now there's conflicting gossip from the line and management, but the line suggests uptake for the new and adulterated RRO scheme is poor. So again, nothing suggesting commands next year will eventuate.
Last edited by Gnadenburg; 7th Dec 2019 at 02:58.