The goal of the airline is to increase the number of locally employed pilots - both on Bases overseas and in Hong Kong. Through the Cadet Pilot Scheme, we have made a huge investment over the past two decades in training young people who may otherwise not have had the opportunity to become pilots and to develop local talent in Hong Kong.
I think the press and LEP'sshould be jumping on this statement in cx's employment policy. If their aim is to develop local talent then why open up the cadet scheme to everyone else. This spells out the real motives of the company in that it won't pay housing allowance to local cadets as a way of saving money just as it won't pay a housing allowance to the non-local cadets that are being recruited at the moment.
