Then I guess if you think the 400 is the oldest in the fleet you are not with the program....
...and I just got an email from a distant relative, an Ansett C&C on the 737 who says there are 738 of his colleagues (including him), many with a CV which would have got them a LH-seat job anywhere 6 months ago, all knocking on the door.
Mark my words... CX will not discard the current deck if they can avoid it in spite of the well documented troubles. Grown men and women don't throw out the bathwater ...especially those that remember when HK ran out of water and it was shipped in via ship from China.
Swire and Cathay were built with the goodwill of the staff. Noone is more acutley aware of that than the management.