Originally Posted by
gipilot
I can’t believe people still believe this type of stuff. Guys please, you’ve been in aviation long enough to know that managers don’t think like we do. Every single Cx manager must be feeling so sorry for their American counterparts and American managers are beyond jealous of what’s being paid to pilots in Europe and Asia. Dude, aviation is not going the way of the U.S., aviation is going the way of Europe and Asia, lower salaries and lower benefits.
What’s happening in the US is a case of regulation that has caused a massive shortage of pilots paired with huge retirements and a massive aviation rebound, nothing more and nothing less. In Europe and Asia it’s all well catered for.
There’s also an issue called supply and demand and outside of the US it’s practically non-existent. CX for instance has a problem recruiting qualified jockeys, fair enough. However when push comes to shove and the situation becomes critical they’ll just lower the standards. If any of you come across someone from talent acquisition just ask them about the massive amounts of applications they receive on a daily basis, you’ll be shocked. There are tons of unemployed Malaysian, Philipinos, Pakistani, Europeans around so no company outside the US will never ever go anywhere close to those kind of salaries nor should they.
Those US remuneration packages are 1. Unsustainable and 2. absolutely not the future of aviation salaries and benefits.
One has to agree with GIpilot, the bar to getting into the cadet scheme is a high school diploma, that’s it! Something like 50k+ teenagers finish high school each year in HK - say hypothetically the cut off age for the cadet scheme was 28 years old conservatively speaking that’s 500k potential students to choose from and only selecting 800 out of that lot won’t be hard.
HK breeds enough talent for the pilot work force to be localised, so for those ever hoping for a pay rise again can dream on!