BusyB put yourself into a junior officer’s position i.e. below the rank of Captain. You just slotted in 90 Captains on the freighter that could have gone to Senior First Officers on the Cathay Seniority list.
Agreeing to this just screwed 90 F/O’s which affects everyone below them.
ASL may be junior but they are in the Captains role. Great system. We are now allowing CX to bring in KA pilots in DEC positions, rapid commands ( no disrespect to the KA pilots), but is that fair to our Senior F/O’s that would like to bid for those positions or a Capt that would like to fly the freighter on a base because the passenger bases are full?
If they join the bottom of the list, there rank should reflect this.
Allowing stuff like this is only going to pave the way for DEC on the passenger fleet, when Cathay Pacific gets desperate enough.
We stopped hiring ASL pilots back in 2000 and all freighter commands after that came from the Cathay Seniority List, so now 90 pilots just jumped the queue. CX should have left the ASL pilots with ASL but no, Cathay needed the FACA to disappear. Why do we let this sh!te happen to us.
So now the FACA has disappeared and we have 90 DEC onto the freighter, what are we doing about it?
Yes I see what we are doing; we are negotiating retirement age and screwing our junior crew out of their contractual by-pass pay.
Maybe the junior crew should join the CPU because the AOA is surely not looking out for their interest.