Cathay win once again, not the AOA.
Thats about it.
Actually, nothing has changed. So no-one has won anything. Everyone employed before Jan 1st, 2008 signed COS that had retirement age of 55.
Those expectations haven't changed. Just because you would have benefited from something that improved your situation, and now that is taken away, it does not mean that Cathay have won. It just means that the situation has remained the same.
A real win would have been if Cathay negotiated an ammendment to retirement age that benefited the pilots as well as Cathay. That has yet to happen.