Drool69er, I suggest you defer your celebrations if it is based on action by the CAD.
If QAR evidence is being tampered with we all know the implications but to expect the CAD to act when they have had their stamp of approval (a valid AOC) on the standards of a totally inept organisation for more than 6 years (since the CR days) does not suggest the CAD will act now.
The individual FOI may take a hard line but from Assistant or Deputy Director upwards they will do as their political masters instruct, and the threat of Hainan dis investing with all the resultant fall out is more than our government could abide.
You are correct - HKE was a far different organisation. Now, however, I hear that numbers are diminishing as the HKA influence becomes paramount. Their DFO recently left and I believe that their General Manager Flying is now to follow. Both are professionally sound good men. That does not suggest an improvement is nigh!