Originally Posted by
veritas777
Sadly for you, your dream of those idiot cadets crashing planes left and right, and CX coming crawling back to expats begging them to come back with full housing and save the airline from imminent doom, is going to remain exactly that, a dream.
It would be prudent and more acceptable to all if the terms expat and cadet were swapped for experienced aviators and non - experienced aviators. Ethnicity is irrelevant. Experience comes through years of experience and with that the correct formula for cockpit gradient is retained at a reasonable level. Race plays little to no part in it. If CX's plan is to be largely reliant on attracting zero to hero guys and girls off the street or those unable to obtain jobs in their own market after the recovery, and plowing them through ADL at bare minimum cost, and leaning heavily on training and checking then
so be it. That strategy may barely function (and often fails) with today's training department but the training and checking department come Nov 05, 2022 coupled with an industry that is forecast to be entering a slow expansion, thus providing options in less draconian work environments, indicates some serious potential safety considerations. It's all great when it stays on the rails but as soon as something happens for the first time for all of the flight crew members with some added weather challenges then it's all bets off. Especially if a pilot risks losing 1/3 of his/her salary for reporting unfit. Keep in mind that by 'benchmarking' your COS and benefits against a fusion of budget and /or low cost carriers in cheaper cities they have also benchmarked the safety.