Facts
Captain salary 65,000
Co-Pilot 45,000
* included in this amount is 15,000 which is at company discretion. They have and will in the future change this any time they wish with no consultation with you.
If you love minimum rest trip away from home; you will Love HKA.
Come to work for HKA if you love the following.
- If you like last minute roster changes
- Low salary
- High living cost.
- You contract means nothing.
- Uncertainty, and contract changes without consultation with the pilot group
- A company that has made it policy not to communicate with pilots on contractual or matters about terms and condition
- Management that are so childish they have fist fights in the office more than once
- Your annual leave will only be approved 3 weeks before you get it. You can never apply for something 6 months or even 2 months in advance. If you try to request annual leave off 12 months in advance for your brother wedding it will be impossible.
- Your 401k (retirement savings) are less that 5% salary
- If you take sick leave you get penilized. This encourage people to work sick and spread disease and worse operate when not 100% well.
- You do not get extra to work on your days off.
- Medical is really not good for anything.
- No schooling, and some of the highest primary and secondary school fees in the world
- No Housing allowance and rents are at all time high in Hong Kong
- The company has no master plan. No direction
- Load factor to Moscow is very low, can not be sustained.
- Money losses are huge
- Obvious bad decisions are being made and we just shake our head in disbelief
- Annual leave 1/2 that of most airlines
- A company that has many court cases against them, and has lost many previously
- You will always be late, and forced to extend duty.
- If the arriving aircraft is late you will not be advised prior to leaving home for duty, you find out after sign on that the aircraft is running 3 hours late
- Long Haul roster the worst I have seen in my life
- A Company so disorganized that is could not even foresee the future pilot requirements for training
- Even type rated pilots will be highly Bonded
- No loss of licence insurance
- Poor support and assistance at outports. You’re on your own.
One positive though. That festering puss of a human called R.Lim is gone and the company can only be better without him. Unfortunately the damage that he and his slime ball team have done to the company and its image in the pilot community will take a decade to repair.
Still want to come to HKA? Before making the move, come to Hong Kong see the rents at 30,000 a month, and read all this info here which is still valid. The company is sub-standard. The management are making no steps to listen to pilot suggestions on how to improve morale and conditions. Do you really want to associate yourself with that? You can do better. Good luck