Just to let you guys know that there is not a ban on CPA employees of any side of the industrial divide applying to the company I work for.Without going into too much detail this issue has been discussed and I am pleased to say that merely being a 49-er (sadly,48) does not preclude applying,nor indeed of being succesful in obtaining a job. The only proviso is passing the interview process,certainly not a formality in itself, and leaving all the Cathay baggage behind. And I mean that sympathetically.B/rgds.