Originally Posted by
ACMS
For all those guys in here salivating at the prospect the bases will be cut and they will slide up the ASL consider this,
Oz based crew will be on standown for 6 months minimum. Including lost superannuation, plus what the Australian Govt contribute in jobkeeper Cx are only paying us about 35% ( 65% pay cut ) of our normal monthly income.....35%......and that 35% obviously DOESN'T include any expat benefits.....which you guys get on top.........so just imagine for a minute how much cheaper we are than a HK crew member to have hanging around waiting. Yes some of you in HK are fortunate to be flying once a month....... but you certainly ain’t close to being productive.
It basically costs them very little to have experienced crews waiting on the books for an upturn which will come, this is a marathon not a sprint.
Maybe some of you wish you were on a base now?
So can we please just cutout the bs and learn to help each other.......in fighting does not help our situation.
We are indeed lucky we work for Cathay Pacific under these circumstances.......There’s a lot of not so lucky Pilots in the World right now.
I don't think people were being as vindictive as you seem to think. No one is hoping that you get cut, and we all know as does management if they close a base then those pilots return to Hong Kong. The possibility of base closures is something that you need to be prepared for and the unions gaming for, if you decide you don't want to return to Hong Kong as is your contractual and legal right then unfortunately there's not much that can be done! if they did close bases the only reason I can think of to do so would be a shot in the dark by management that those crew wouldn't want to return to Hong Kong and thus it would save them some mandatory redundancies, other than that I see no reason to close them. All will become clear by December.
All of us in Hong Kong need to remember that it's one seniority list and one company basing doesn't affect LIFO, it seems a few of the newer COs18 hires don't get that probably because of their lack of experience in the industry.
We all need to start planning and we all need to be incredibly familiar with our conditions of service/contracts.