Some interesting figures
Staff costs were over $12Billion last year. So lets assume it was around $10B for salaries - just for simplicity. Let's also assume we all gave 2 weeks in SLS (not a bad assumption really as the extra 2 weeks salary sacrifice of a Level D or E employee is equal to probably 5-20 Level A staff's worth of 1 week sacrifice - the ratio of Level D/E to Level A is probably very roughly around 10 times)
So using the above assumptions:
SLS saved around $400m.
Paying back 90% to Level D/E probably saved around $10-15m.
The announced dividend of 10cents will give Swire about $160m and the other majority shareholders(CNAC/Air China/CITIC) about $140m.
Tony Tyler's reported 2008 remuneration was $15m
So in summary.
SLS - saved $400m but around $385-390m paid back.
CX pays out almost $400m in the interim dividend ($160m to Swire etc)
Level D/E (predominantly pilots) have $10-15m of their money un-refunded.
Tony Tyler's 2008 remuneration was $15m of which $6m was bonus related.
So not exactly sure what the purpose of holding the 10% back was!?