Originally Posted by
CanadaGooseJacket
I am not interested in bush flying at all, and definitely not interested in living in the Arctic. Westjet and Air Canada would be great, now that we can all agree on..!
I would much rather live in HK doing 3 trips a month for CAD 130,000 than 6 legs a day in a Q for CAD 36,000. The houses here are also 2M, not much different from HK, really, except the salary is 1/3, and the tax is double. Also, you'll need a car in Canada, so after the expenses, you'll have about 50 cents left to put in your savings account. Can you see the problem? Even the first-year SO salary exceeds the 5th year AC salary, assuming you can even get the job.
Graveyard? Why is that.
Read the news much? Think the future is bright in HK? Think you’re actually gonna do 3 LHs a month for your entire CX career? You aren’t even going to sit in a window seat for at least four years. By then, whatever flying skills you do have will be long gone, which isn’t to say you’re qualified to fly WBs now. You wanna live in fantasy land, go right ahead, but remember these posts when you’re tempted to complain because CX just pinched huge amounts of variable pay off you and the choice is between paying the rent, running the AC, or buying food at the grocery. You’re gonna wish you were on a trip, any sh!tty trip, instead of being stuck in your crappy HK apartment on unpaid reserve with no money to do anything fun or even go home on “staff travel” to see your family. Good luck!!!