Originally Posted by
VforVENDETTA
3 pilots? Can someone confirm this? If not names, maybe generally circumstances and how they passed?
We all know something has to break in this situation cathay has created out of covid madness of silly land called hong kong. Its so sad its not cathay that breaks first, instead of out very dear friends and colleagues we have so many memories with.
This has to be made public news. Cathay shares are rising. At the cost of their long time loyal pilots literally dying of suicide and stress under pressure of having their livelihoods cut in half and working under conditions exponentially worse than ever before. You don't have to be genius to know in what mental health shape they all are.
Do the shareholders of cathay pacific realize what blood they have on their hands hoping to take advantage of this situation? Is this a healthy company worth having shares of? Forget about any ethics or decency in stock holders. But how can you justify buying stock in a company this fundamentally unhealthy in a business sense. They're ready to implode when flying demand comes back in a hurry at some point and they have just a fraction of qualified pilots to fly their airplanes. Losing long held money maker slots and being forced to shrink the airline down to a fraction of size because they can't operate anything more than a skeleton operation.
1000 cadets is what they are betting on. Same kind of cadets who will need at least 2-3 years before they can qualify only to be second officers not yet qualified to fly the airplane limited to in-flight admin and air traffic control communications type of duties. It takes 3-4 years for each one of them to become at least a first officer qualified to fly the airplane. Cathay has never had nor does it now have the training capacity to train more than a couple of hundred in a year. It would take cathay years and billions to create a big enough training department to handle the numbers they need to replace what is lost in pilot workforce.
Meanwhile they've bled away at least 1/3 of their most experienced pilots so far and bleeding more every month. Many still on the seniority list and on stress related sick leave are never coming back to work either. So don't think seniority list tells the total amount of pilots left at Cathay.
The board of directors has been for some time panicking about the lack of pilots to even expand a few percent flights back up being told by planning department "cannot, not enough pilots, cannot".
This is a company you buy stocks in? You must be a special kind of stupid.
I wish AOA had a public relations department. What a pathetic waste of oxygen of a pilot association.
One heart attack last week on returning to Australia after completing double closed loop
One jumping off a roof top in central on Sunday
not sure about a third