Well, I have it on good authority that management were visiting the Immigration and Labour Departments this week. They were informed in no uncertain terms that they will no longer issue extensions of work visa's while there is a large local supply of pilots (info as of Friday afternoon). I wonder if this is a rather destructive unintended consequence of Cathay sacking all the KA pilots (i'm guessing there were about 200 local pilots involved), or whether this was a very cynical but planned strategy to eliminate another few hundred pilots without any cost to the company, as they can simply point out that employment is based on having the required visa's. Either way, about to get very interesting...