Don't believe all that you hear/read in the HK press. I've been in CX for 18 years and the first 8 were great. Then something changed and the aircrew became the 'enemy'. After a decade of diminishing conditions (My salary is 72% of what it was in 1992) and an employer making shedloads of money, we have simply had enough. We are united as a union and they can sack us for all we care if they will not come to the table and agree to a 21st century contract that addresses the needs of the shareholders AND the aircrew.
We are not the enemy - we're dying to help and make CX what it was - really.
However, when our esteemed leaders fire a young F/O who's just recovered from testicular cancer for being sick too much (sorry for 'no specific reason') they (we) draw line in the sand.
That, my dear accountants - at least as far as I'm concerned - is far enough.
[ 11 August 2001: Message edited by: jagman ]