why a red herring busyB?
cpdude
I accept your argument if the choice was no extensions allowed. Whilst they are training constrained it is their choice whether to take the expensive extension option or upgrade slightly younger captains to TC/STC/BTC. I dont think we need to do anything...they already have the mechanism in place(extensions) to deal with rapid expansion.
5G
much much shorter than command courses. I would estimate that you could upgrade 2-3TCs a month versus2months of command course flying.
BusyB, one other thing. Somewhere you posted about age discrimination forcing someone CX to allow us to fly past 55. That would only be true if the pilot falls under the jurisdiction of UK/NZ/OZ etc and the basing company. However, you cannot then come back to HKG and fly past 55 here regardless of what UK/OZ/NZ say. They have no jurisdictional power here. You may be able to work on a base after 55 but you couldn't come back to HKG and there is nothing any government can do about it!