Sizematters
Enjoy your 3%. An educated guess tells me we will be given a lot more than 3%. Reason? Pilots leaving (many of them Captains) at a faster rate than they can be recruited and services cancelled.
Mini Cooper
New services to Busan, Fukuoka, Sendai and shortly Kathmandu are all operated by KA aircraft and KA crews. What are you talking about? It's you that doesn't get it. The whole CX strategy for HKG is based on sucking revenue i.e. transfer pax out of China and booking them through Hong Kong on to the CX network. That's why they bought Dragonair - not the slots. The brand is well known on the mainland and as long as they sort out the mess at KA the big plan will work. If they don't KA will implode within 3-9 months. At that point the price paid for KA would look a little over the top.
Now I'm sure in the long term CX would eventually mop up the mess and would be happy to start a shorthaul network in China. But why would the Swire group do that when they have just bought one?
The KA pilot group are quite happy to crack on with the job but only if we're getting a fair deal. If we don't get it we WILL leave. Reason? Most of us have got medium/heavy jet command time so it's easy. This isn't CX and we're not tied to a so called 'career'. We're here for one reason only - MONEY. At the moment the majority of the company are working on exit plans. I just hope for Cathay's sake it's not too little too late.
You lot over the road need to stop being so arrogant, you might find we are paid more than you shortly. After all, we work harder and fly to crap destinations in China - something you seem to aspire to........