Originally Posted by
BScaler
What Cathay proposes is to make a Direct Entry First Officer (DEFO) stream available to guys like you, but they don't want to pay the money that they currently pay First Officers on the Passenger Fleet, or have to deal with Bypass Pay issues for Second Officers here in Cathay.
They want to pay you less for doing the same job, and carrying the same responsibilities, as almost every other First Officer currently serving on the passenger fleet in Cathay. And there are other degradations in Conditions of Service (CoS) they would like to bring in at the same time such as leave and basings restrictions.
You're right, they don't want to pay which is typical!
To hire a DEFO onto PAX at the current PAX FO pay would undermine the recruitment of Freighter pilots which are at a lower pay. Some say so what but you don't solve a problem by making another problem. What I believe they should do is hire DEFO as they did years ago at PAX FO pay and give the same pay to the Freighter FO's.
Oh, I just caught site of the Cos 07 pay scales USAB. What a joke. This is a bad deal.
