DashDriver: I hope the first reply didn’t alarm you. Don’t let it, simply because it is not true. There are a lot of American pilots here in HKG and on the basings. If conditions are as bad as some might want you to believe, then ask them what are they doing still working for a bad company. The truth is: As you said quite rightly, every company, even American Airlines, have good and bad points. Working for CX is interesting, plenty of destinations, layovers, new aircraft, good salaries and benefits, excellent future. One thing though, there are plenty of pilots here who don’t know what its like to work for another company simply because they’ve never done it.