A Cathay mate of mine who was caught up in 89, went back to the air-force, then went to HKG just had his number one son graduate from Uni. He has his father's brains and if he has half of his father's flying ability he would have made a superb pilot.
He just started with Mac Bank. Says it all really. Flying no longer attracts the best and brightest of todays young. They have seen the degradation of the profession by airline managements over the last 25 years and quite rightly want no part of it.
Managements haven't learnt this fact of life yet. They will though... they will.