PA5JAG
Why do CX leave it so late for the med? By the time you do the medical they've interviewed you 3 times, watched you do 2 team exercises and about 8 hours of tests. Obviously the medicals take time and money but since the rqmts are essential would make sense to me to do it between the 1st and 2nd stages. Its quite possible for Cathay to waste a lot of time on an applicant who can never be a pilot.
It’s much cheaper wasting a few resources on the very few candidates that fail the medical at stage three than try and conduct medicals on hundreds of candidates that made it through stage one to stage two. We simply don’t have the resources to conduct that many medicals on an ongoing basis and still be able to conduct the annual and in some cases bi-annual medicals for 2200 pilots that already work here.
