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You may be right. Them deciding to only offer bypass pay to HKG based FOs would tie in with your poker game theory. They would know that in a 12-13 year wait to command maybe half of the SO/FOs eventually go on a base so they would have saved hundreds of millions of dollars in bypass pay.
I know they have sought legal advice on the basings issues. Maybe it is a combination of both needs. If they have to offer RA65 on a base all the C+T guys will bid for a base...leaving them with a lot less in HKG. So maybe that is the driver for offering RA65 in HKG?
Oh well, bottom line is that they are going to offer it...how can we protect and reduce the impact to our 1350+ colleagues who joined under the assumption that RA55 would keep their command time under a decade?
Last edited by Numero Crunchero; 14th Sep 2007 at 10:56.