Originally Posted by
trigonometry
On the surface: It's a fully sponsored program, that means you don't have to make any down payments upfront.
The catch is:
A) You will given a training loan which amounts for 1 million hkd, and you will need to pay back by providing services for a minimum period of 6 years. By then, the loan will just go away.
B) You ARE NOT entitled to pilot allowance for the first three years of your employment which total of 504,000hkd, that accounts for half of the training fees.
C) No salary will be paid to you during a year long training. However, you will be given some allowance while you are trained in overseas. Again. this is not a full salary!
C) Based on the current pay system, after you are offered a position as SO1, your monthly salary is dependent on the hours you flown, the more hours you fly, the more money you make, similar to the pay system as Flight Attendants. (That's why they have pilots who deliberately taxing at a slow speed in order to bill more hours)
D) P2X is the flights hours created for cruise relief pilots. It is not internationally recognizable. If there are 2 SOs on the flight, your hours will be slashed by half. Refer to CAD54 if you wanted to know more.
E) No housing allowance will be given to you. You need to figure out how to make a living on a 33k ish salary in Hong Kong. (Hence many SOs or even FOs have a second or third job)
So clear. I wish CX HR would be so transparent with information as well. Sadly they were not. Look at CX cadet pilot page and BA future pilot page. Big difference. And CX called itself Premium Airlines? lol Thank you trigonometry.
Few questions. How many flight hours required to promote to FO1? Also, they now hiring Direct Entry Second Officer, Direct Entry First Officer, maybe Direct Captain too? With so many new experienced pilots joining, will they take away the flying hours, then delay the whole promotion time?