Flap10
You are so myopic it defies belief. Your rants border on the nonsense that is being spread by the third floor. I couldn’t give a flying f**k whether an expat coming back to Hong Kong voluntarily and getting full housing is illogical to you. That is the agreement we have with the company and as far as I'm concerned it is not negotiable.
As I have said before I have no problem with cadets getting housing but it will not be at my expense. If you don’t like that, tough. If you can’t see that the company is trying to split the pilot body down expat/lep lines by spreading this nonsensical rumoured proposal then there is no hope for us. We should be striving for full expat terms for cadets, rather than expecting expats to accept lower conditions of service. Once you give something away you will never get it back. Today it is housing. Next they’ll be wanting to take away our FOC's. In industrial negotiations you should never give anything away. By doing so you are committing industrial suicide.
Regarding the housing agreement, it is a signed agreement (contract) between the company and the AOA over, I believe, a two to four year period. Only at the end of that agreement can the company change how housing payments are calculated. There isn’t many agreements more sensitive than housing that would focus the pilot body if the company decided to scr*w us over. The last AOA vote when the company proposed significant changes for new joiners is testament to how the majority of the pilot body feels about housing.