I wonder how much worse they can do than cx when it comes to attracting new pilots. One out of 60 accepted cx's offer last hiring round, and apparantly his dad owns **** loads of property in HK, etc... They've barely raised the bar this time and searching for the lowest denominator via trial & error, so maybe 5 out of sixty will accept this time?! At least EK is offering
better housing terms than before, not non-existant or worse than before. CX is quickly realising that it's attraction to pilots all these years has not been prestige or pilots' dream of working for CX...(what a laugh
) It's been the money! Without it, they don't seem to find anyone to want to come to HK. It was only 3 years ago when they were having no show rates of almost 100% at interviews for the last few major city interviews they set up in the US even with the old housing allwance and that was a huge blow to their ego, but apparantly not a wake up call. They like to pretend it never happened. EK too is learning that it has to
pay for insisting their pilots live somewhere they don't want to and that the only ones impressed with anything other than the money they pay, are themselevs. They too are searching for the lowest denominator. Unless you have a working place people enjoy working at, you have to pay a premium for people to come... especially if it's a very expensive or undesirable place to live. Neither of these two companies can claim the first condition (place people enjoy working at), so they have to pay to make up for it.
