Talk to crew control and you will find out that they are desperately short. They are still changing duties to reserve and very short on passenger guys on the 400.
Cathay never did anything to fix the crewing situation before the economy took a dump. Yes they have parked some aircraft, but attrition has also shortened the numbers and we are still accepting new aircraft.
The only thing this downturn has done is give them a little more breathing room when it comes to training, but even that is still quite over-tasked.
I really hope that the AOA keeps their head together during all of this. I'm really getting sick of this updates from the union saying that "we are in talks, we'll let you know in a few weeks". It is getting pretty old. Why can't they at least tell us what these talks are about without divulging any details? I don't understand why we have all this secrecy from our own union.
