Originally Posted by
KABOY
CX780.
You truly are a short sighted individual, COS18 will be around for a long time whilst we have individuals who espouse this rubbish.
The next CX780 will be a lawn dart smoldering hole in the front yard.
Emirates had a crash in 2016 and a near crash just a few months ago that came within a couple of hundred feet of buildings. cathay has had a hard landing pandemic on the 747 fleet lately. Coincidentally with a reduction of experienced crew. "Coincidentally"
That red button you speak of has yet to be invented for airliner aircraft. Nothing inherently unsafe with hiring cadets, providing robust training and years of experience built up. If you remove qualifications and experience too soon before the cadets can be safely brought online, there will he a gap thru which its easy to lose aircraft and most importantly reputation. I'd like to see Mr & Mrs Ho get on a cathay flight after a well publicized event.
An airline that has to fill close to 2000 pilot jobs asap doesn't have the luxury of time to develop cadets to fill them anyway.