Originally Posted by
AdB29
(which includes the locals who are trying to destroy other people careers just because their own company who they trusted so much fired them) but why would you wish on pilots at UO (who have absolutely nothing to do with the issue and have been minding their business while you lot fight it out) to lose their visas as well.
No AdB29 - it was not "our own company" - it was YOUR company - Cathay Pacific (that by the way hardly any KA pilot trusted), who fired us - while YOUR company will take our airplanes and routes and let YOUR junior crew with no
PR operate them instead. It was not OUR own company. Jeez, even "our" CEO and DFO was sacked by CX!
As for UO - they are now as much part of the Cathay group as KA was. They will also take KA routes and aircraft. With respect to loyalty, contribution to the CX group and time spent building up the success that was indeed HKG aviation pre-covid, I think locals (and as "hyg" very neatly and correctly points out - not necessarily cadets staying at mum and dad's place, but very senior pilots with 20 plus years in HKG aviation, kids, families, homes in HKG,
PR) deserve to fly those jets before South Americans or iCadets with 2 years contribution to the HKG workforce.
In a new world where you signed away from seniority by joining COS18,
PR-status might well be one of the fair ways of upholding some sort of "seniority" in as much as who has contributed most to the Cathay Group or Hong Kong aviation in the past;
An iCadet on work visa with no particular affiliation with HKG who will shortly be flying the ex-KA Neos around Asia? Or a senior pilot, ethnicity aside, who has contributed 25 years to what made KA such a strong and succesful airline and who has his or her home here in Hong Kong with family and friendships build up locally?
It would suit you to be a bit more humble and having less prejudice about the "locals" who were just thrown under the bus by YOUR airline, and who are simply standing up for what is fair in THEIR home country.