What's going on behind the scenes at cx city:
The plan was 60% of normal ops by September. Planning said cannot, not enough pilots. Revised plan was 50% of normal ops by end of the year. Planning now says not enough pilots for that either and can't recruit pilots either. So now again revised plan, 30% cut to the 50% by end of the year plan. It has already been admitted openly internally that their plans are not achievable due to lack of pilots even after downsizing the plans several times already. They're also having no luck hiring in any department to restore operations back towards normal level.
Panic has set in at board level. Eventually it will have to he admitted that cathay can't restore operations due to inability to retain or hire pilots, publicly. Or apparently any employees in general as well.
It must be painful to be an employer without any credibility having lost the confidence of long time loyal employees forever due to one stupid arrognt mistake at a crucial moment for which cathay will very possibly pay the ultimate price for.
The harder and harsher cathay falls the better for the pilot profession. It will keep other airlines to even think about doing the same to their pilot workforce in the future. It seems cathay has finally found the magic line that they should have never crossed, and from which there's no going back.
There's nothing cathay can ever do now to regain credibility. They'll have to pay more than they did before to get people risking their careers to work at cathay even on short term basis.
Well done GH. This was all GH's baby project.
This is what happens when there's a waste of oxygen CEO in charge. He can be persuaded to agree to this kind of disastrous action for which cathay is already in deep deep sh!t now unable to execute a recovery.