There may be about 500 Alitalia pilots looking for work soon. We can hire Alitalia captains for our Direct Entry Command positions for our freighter operations based in Milan. Not all the Direct Entry Command positions were filled by our Direct Entry Captains from Dragonair.
There is no shortage of pilots wanting to join The Cathay Pacific Group and as we have done in the past, offered pilots a second opportunity. There are many pilots with The Cathay Pacific Group that were afforded a second opportunity and subsequently became Captains and Senior Training Captains.
Signs of desperation, I think not.
We believe in market forces and the downward trend of conditions will continue. There is no reason for us to increase conditions where it is not needed and will give meager increases where it is.
That would be giving my bonus away.
Typical pilot narcissism.
To My Bonus.
The Management