Hong Kong was a place like no other for expats, especially in the 80s and early 90s. After the handover, a lot of the colonial mindset was still in place, within individuals and within corporations. I believe that a lot of the sentiments felt by some of the expats then are stemmed from that mindset.
Some may have had one or two bad experiences with local captains and use that as their forever mouthpiece, without looking at any statistical evidence. If one look at “significant events” in the last 20 years, almost all of them involved expat captains. With regards to demotion (either from captain to FO or taken off training), I can think of one local guy and 8 expats in the last 10 years. Which statistically is the proportion of local vs expats captain.
Everyone has good days and bad days at the office, it is about working as a team to manage any events. When there is a typhoon the company doesn’t roster only expats for the flights (though some individuals both locals and expats are known to call sick for those). Let’s just get on with the job and stop the divide and hate. Let’s be nice to each other and be less
