Originally Posted by
Pickuptruck
One of the recruiters sent their monthly roundup of contract jobs out there. On Base salary CX is literally the worst paying job in Asia on a widebody. The end can't come soon enough, an Air China takeover tomorrow would put us all on contracts that would be a hefty pay increase. Wrap your head around that for how far this airline has fallen.
Cathay used to have access to only 7.5 Million people in Hongkong to find cadets.
With the opening to Mainland China they can tap a country of 1400 Million people to find cadets now.
Best case it takes 7 years to recruit a cadet and put him in the left hand seat.
With the present geopolitical situation I suspect that China could be a closed country for foreign pilots within the next 10-15 years.
All present expats might be replaced with Chinese (unemployed) people in a not so distant future.
'Expats' who might think that they still have a lifetime career ahead of them with Cathay might be in for a rude awakening at some point.
Keep your fingers crossed that this point won't coincide with a worldwide downturn then.
Either way their seniority will be gone and they have to start from scratch somewhere.