CX Airbus SOPs are clumsy. The manuals are cut and pasted from Airbus documentation. What is frightening is all the background information left out.
At KA it gives one man, the loaned CX chief pilot, an inordinate amount of power in determining operational procedures without account.
It is my understanding CX do not do command training or checking on Beijing sectors because their SOPs are dysfunctional. One example of a most absurd and unprofessional syndrome. Yet KA has to apply these procedures in everyday China operations whilst CX is pragmatically aware of their limitations in such!
I've flown Air China wet leases. Was always an easy day out for me. Just bring your own food. I'd welcome Air China SOPs over CX..
Last edited by And Then; 18th August 2009 at 01:41.