1. Same
2. No housing, other benefits the same
3. Cadet = no housing
4. Public forum, not the place to tell
5. No. seniority is determined by date of hire.
6. Seniority determines time to upgrade to JFO, not performance. Presently around 4 years after finishing cadet course and starting SO training.
7. P2 time can be logged only for time in the right seat. Captains can log the entire time of flight.
8. Sim module every 2 months.
9. Not true.
10. In accepting a contract on lower terms, you are setting the stage for lowering the conditions of all CX pilots in the future, making your contract the standard for all new hires and making it very hard for the present CX pilots to improve conditions. Most try to rationalize that even though they start employment with CX on lower conditions, they eventually will get the same benefits and contract conditions then the present CX pilots which is not the case. It's the simple supply and demand game. As long as CX can lower conditions and find enough pilots/cadets to fill these positions the trend to lower contract conditions continues until the situation reverses, meaning CX has to raise contract conditions again to find enough qualified people to supply hiring demand.
In my opinion you can make CX only a viable career if you can hold a US base (guessing you are American) after JFO assessment, which there are none available at the present time.
If you consider living in Hong Kong with wife and without housing benefits most of your income will be used up, making it very hard to save money for retirement or create home owner equity. When you are promoted to Captain in 15 - 18 years you will get a special management allowance which is presently about 1/3 of the housing allowance.
You truly love flying? Pilots don't fly at CX or any other particular long-haul widebody airline, pilots operate and manage automation.
Last edited by GTC58; 21st Feb 2011 at 18:37.