Originally Posted by
EddyTemple
This is one of those "told you so" moments. The Hong Kong immigration department is doing exactly what is should do, protecting and promoting local employment. This would be exactly the same in your home country, it's a shock to the system because we have been living in an ever expanding aviation bubble. Hong Kong will no longer be the place where work permits are handed out like cheap crew meals on a busy flight.
Best of luck.
this may be the case, however, experience still needs to be considered. Whether you like it or not, the experience required to run the cx group airlines entirely does not exist in the local population. Yes, there are local pilots available, but very few with extensive experience. Besides, if you are considering the ka local pilots, most were cadets, they have been to Shanghai and Beijing a couple of thousand times, but that’s it. As far as ‘experience’ goes, they are very inexperienced in terms of the overall cx network. Throw them into anchorage/New York/Chicago on a rough winters evening and you will realize just what experience they have. I am not undermining their ability, but one has to be realistic. This is by no means the end of expats at cx, don’t get too excited, there are only 200-300 local pilots looking for work, they will be absorbed quick enough.