Cathay Pacific leaders taken us to the bottom in a vertical dive!

[Oddball77]

Originally Posted by main_dog

However in all fairness unless you’re lucky enough to already own a place in HK, it has the highest real estate costs in the world (rental or buying). The lower tax here is more than offset by the high rents.

The one big advantage of US (and even most EU) jobs is a certain amount of control over your lifestyle/career earnings. We never had most of that here, but at least we had financial certainty. Now with our new “contract” that certainty is gone, and in addition to having little/no control over leave/days off/fleet/workload, you have no idea how much you can expect to make and save.

Makes it a potentially interesting short term job but a hard sell as a career airline, especially with family.

“With all our pilots in one base in Hong Kong, operating under a single remuneration structure… we’re able to achieve very different ways of working and different levels of the way in which pilots can contribute to the daily task of flying the schedule that we offer to customers,” Kempis said.