If the company is having a difficult time recruiting locally what other options do they have??
The international cadets in my opinion is the beginning of the end for direct entry pilots. Eventually everyone will be on local terms and the expat contract will become the dying A scale. As B scalers we often have little good to say about the way A scalers allowed the B scale to happen under their noses. Lets make sure that the future pilots of Cathay don't see us B scalers as the bastards that sat and watched as the new contracts got worse and worse. Now is the time for us to collectively fight for an improvement to our packages (regardless of what it is called). There are a number of agreements up for renewal so lets make sure we all get something out of it instead of bickering like children. Honestly is it any surprise the public have such little sympathy for us?