Are all you people for real?
There have been some informative and pleasant posts to this topic. Even seems like grown ups have written a few of them. 41IA, eg, a great post and difficult to disagree with most of his sentiments so well articulated. Please remember what is said about threats they are always counter productive when used too often. I mean that from both sides of course. One little thing though, the new aircrew coming to Hong Kong for final interview are of a consistently good standard and those offered positions would have got that privelige at any time in my memory. Excluding these people from the AOA is only fragmenting the pilot body further and is not in the best interests of the AOA. Until it is realised that this 'ban' is laughable given the practice of AOA members accepting company promotion then the AOA will continue to look foolish in the extreme.