Want to be treated like a dog? Join KA
After 6 years at KA here are the facts for anyone interested:
Pollution is out of control and getting worse thanks to the industrial boom in China and all the factories just across the border to the north.
Kids and adults developing all kinds of weird illnesses as a result.
Guys going out medically with early alzheimer's, heart problems, cancer, mercury poisoning and the list goes on and on. You name it someone's got it.
KA management are absolutely appalling.
Be warned they will come after you and screw you first chance they get. (why? Who the bloody hell knows)
Moral is in the toilet and getting worse thanks to the "no accountability management."
Training non existent but expect a ridiculous level of checking.
IMHO there are about 4 guys in the entire training department who are properly qualified, experienced trainers with the personality traits that go with being a good trainer.
The rest are there to get the good flying patterns, weekends off, pick the eyes out of the leave and generally be treated better than the line pilots.
Some have told me this personally.
They are totally beyond reproach and any form of accountability to you or the union. They have frequently destroyed some outstanding pilots careers for god know what reason!
The guys with the background, proper qualifications and experience as well as a proven record have told me they will not be involved in such a flawed system.
The money is now not such a factor as the HK $ is pegged to the US $ so do your homework.
You will fly max hours into China all the time and be knackered on your days off.
FACT
You will definitely get sick on a few overnights in China as the hotels are mostly below airline acceptable minimum standard.
The rosters are absolutely terrible. You'll do stupid inefficient patterns that keep you away from home for as long as possible unless you're in management or the training department.
Management have told our union that we shouldn't get anything the office staff don't get!
You'll regularly do 5 on 1 off or 6 on 2 off and be so tired all the time you'll think you have an illness which by then you probably will.
Staff travel is ok but basically a waste of time as generally flights are full most of the time.
There's a new GMO who is just another yes man and he wants to sack, suspend and discipline as many pilots as he can so he actually looks like he has what it takes to his superiors at CX.
KA was good for about 18 months but it's finished.
Go anywhere else if you have any common sense.
Mass resignations running at around the 20%+ mark with lots more on the way.
Sick leave between 20% and 30% on any given day.
Clearly these guys couldn't run a bath as they say.
The problems at KA are now insurmountable and getting worse with the current management.
I believe it will implode in the not too distant future.
See you in the sandpit amigos.