We would like to thank all the pilots who worked for the greater interest of “The Cathay Pacific Group” during the Typhoon. You have saved “The Cathay Pacific Group” a tremendous amount of money.
Even though we had over 20 diversions, the Hong Kong Airport Authority and Ourselves still considered it safe to continue operations. We will not be proactive with the decision to stop operations (that would cost money), as we will leave that mostly to the Captains of the day. If there is an error it will be considered pilot error and be dealt with accordingly. If Captains fail to operate we will have a chat to those Captains to know why and the review board will judge if it is justifiable.
We would like to thank those Captains on ULH flights that used discretion to the maximum because if you didn’t those passengers would have been stranded. It also means more pilots available for the recovery operations by not using pilots on reserve.
We would like to thank all the Captains that used discretion to reduce rest to help IOC and Crew Control to put the operations back on track.
We would like to thank all the pilots that landed in extreme circumstances and struggled through the turbulence and landed. You saved us a tremendous amount of money by not diverting. Less diversions means more money for my bonus.
It just shows the “Can Do” attitude of most of our Pilots, expect for a few bad apples lurking around on Pprune.
If you continue to be good little pilots, there may be some extra profit share next year (and some goodwill payment) if we don’t change the formula again. No pay rise as we don’t believe the pilots deserve it and there is no reason to justify it.
To My Pay rise and My Bonus.
The Management.