My sentiments exactly. At a time when the very existence of the company is being threatened, the Immigration Department should look into the costs of retraining an ex KA pilot vs a current CX 777 pilot. Especially for a business-centric city like Hong Kong, the Immigration Department should (and I'm sure they already have) talk to the airlines to see how currently policies can be carefully applied to save costs for the airlines as LLLQNH has alluded to. It's one thing to have a GEP but it's another thing to blindly apply it and thus doing harm to important companies like CX.