411A, I presume you mean the thirld world has caught up! Because that is what CX is rapidly becoming - a third world carrier.
All the aircrew in CX thought they were joining a career airline. You know like BA, QF, AC, UA, NW, DL, AA etc. Now they find they are employed by the likes of ...... well I guess you can guess the rest! A very large number of aircrew in this company have seen their COS and remuneration deteriorate year after year. They have now decided that the time has come to stop the rot. That is what this is about, if we go down the hole then what chance for a better deal for anyone in this region. However, I do believe SQ is now going to have to pay more to stop the drift of captains to KL and this is the way it should be! We move for more money when it is offered on the open and free market. We should not move to another carrier because a corrupt management decides to use us as a weapon to further alienate and disadvantage it's existing workforce. Despite what 411 is trying to say this is not about race or colour. It is about corrupt management, that is all. As for you Liam, how are you going to react when CX decides all freighter crew will be based in KUL, PEN, BOM, DEL, BKK, KHI, etc. on local salaries? If you don't want to go there then you won't have a job anymore. Clearly there are lots of guys who would love to fly big aircraft and live at home in those ports. There are also a lot of suitably qualified captains in those places who could move straight into the LHS of a CX freighter. Why shouldn't CX management recruit them? We apparently do not have a legally binding basing agreement (just a morally binding one!!) So CX offers captain slots in BOM, no takers so they recruit on the local market. This is where we are going if we do not stop this now. The KUL advertisements are just step one in this process. Do you understand now guys?