4 Pratts :
Don't mistake the desire for better and fairer working conditions as being synonymous with a lack of home life. You can be a keen observer of events around you, make comment (usually because you care about more than your own hide) and still live happily.
I myself still find the posotives at CX still outweigh the negatives. However as a former checker in a previous life I am immensely frustrated with the current C & T state of affairs. Never have I seen a company so at odds with itself.
They want to expand but are doing the following:
trying to pay less, making upgrade harder, running off the most experienced C & T with reduced COS, creating working conditions in C & T that keep people from applying and force others to quit C & T, making rostering difficult and punitive resulting in a possible loss of badly needed co-operation, failing to heed that they are an internationaly crewed airline now and not British or Australian, and last but not least making upgrading from within the company harder than it has to be and harder than direct entry.
I cannot fathom how the coperate side of this company is sitting idle while this plays out. Expansion oppurtunities are going to be missed. Market share will be lost. Hong Kong itself is in danger of loosing it's gateway status. All of which can be directly tied to the inability of this company to put Captains in the cockpit.
I say all this because I care. It does not have to be so hard. We could move forward and enter the new milenium or even the 90's as far as training methods and employee motivation is concerned. We should have an aircrew body of successful and proud Pilots, not one of low moral and frustration. We should be able to expand the airline and not give up the great job it could still be.
Soap Box off,
Having said all that I am off to Phuket !! Cheers !