Originally Posted by
Rhys S. Negative
Interesting. CES only operated three B767s, and they left the fleet more than a decade ago (2011).
You are right. When I read the original Chinese stories, I didn't check the timeline. Now that you mentioned it, I went back and read that he had already started flying 737 many years ago. It's curious he wasn't promoted to captain.
There's rumor that he was promoted, but was then demoted back to FO after an incident. But it's a rumor on social media only.