Originally Posted by
Sam Ting Wong
The captain was a 34-year-old UAE national who had been with Emirates since March 2001 and had logged 7,457 flight hours, including 5,123 hours on the Boeing 777.
[1] The first officer was 37-year-old Australian national who had been with Emirates since October 2014 and had 7,957 flight hours, with 1,292 of them on the Boeing 777.
Where do you see a connection to cadets at CX? Experience clearly was not an issue. Fatigue seems more likely, considering rostering at EK..
Same question. Where is the connection?
Again, THOUSANDS of cadets flying and every year almost zero incidents. What is so hard to see? The data can't be more clear. Plus the customer doesn't care, nobody except some nerds even heard about these incidents.
I said there's nothing inherently dangerous about hiring cadets, provided it's done right. None of those airlines you listed have had 1700 pilots bleed off from the top heavy end in 2.5 years and then try to replace them with cadets and some individuals with fake logbooks.
Experience is not just a matter of how long one has been doing a job. we've all worked with some who despite their many many thousands of hours and years at the job regardless of seat or rank, are terrible at their job. You can hire people like that who nobody else will hire, if you don't pay ****. When you don't pay ****, the people you lose are the ones others love to hire, and these are coincidentally the ones you can least afford to lose. Cathay has lost 1700 of those at last count. It goes against logic to think this has not had an effect on safety of the operation. Plus, the ones who are desperate enough to still be there under the financial stress of having lost 50% pay & benefits are not by any means at their average performance levels.
Cathay has been hiring individuals who after struggling in training are found to have fake logbooks with fake hours in them. That's how things are at cathay today. Remembering how difficult cathay's selection process used to be and to what lows it has sunk today, I feel guilty laughing my ass off... just a little.
it's funny Cathay isn't even in the top 10 list of safest airlines today. It's number 11.