CX is turning into 'Ryanair with jet lag'.
In fairness to our Chinese overlords, the QANTAS group also charges for interviews and testing. As an Ozmate poster once said, 'soon you'll have to pay for the cleaning lady to wipe your fingerprints off the doorknob to the building'. Big corporations preying on kids with SJS is becoming the norm, as is pilot-managers degrading the profession that has been so good to
them.
In CX's case, maybe they want candidates to pay in advance as the CX interview process is good practice for that with other airlines
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However, the word may be out already. There are rumours of courses at ADL severely undersubscribed, and large numbers of CX crew off to Fed Ex. Anyone out there with the facts?