Well the rumoured pay rise will come too late and not enough.
Well the rumoured pay rise will come too late and not enough.
HKA has no way of filling all the upcoming A320 pilot requirements, with anything other than the lowest quality pilots in Asia/the world) The crews here are already talking about a revolt, and there is strength in numbers. Just when HKA has a weakness the pilots will hit back.
HKE is haemorrhaging; it is losing pilots left right and centre. I heard they are cancelling flights, changing rosters daily, have no stand by crews and it is real mess. I was at the bar on the weekend and there were two more HKE pilots just waiting for start date and they will resign soon also. The plan of sending all the Boeings to HKE will fail because they cannot attract any pilots on the miserable package. That means no more upgrades ever, low flying hours, low pay and unstable rosters.
There is an email circulating that there will be meetings next week about the new conditions of service. The package is apparently a slap in the face to all pilots who waited patiently these last years for any improvement. You will still be going backwards and inflation has far exceeded proposed increase. The cost of housing increased about 40% in the last few years HKA has no chance at all of achieving the hiring numbers for the A320, and HKE will become a 2 aircraft company.
The rumoured Pay rise (which has been in the pipeline for 18 months) is a propaganda tool used by S.Wu and his management buddies to try and keep people leaving. When people resign or crewing gets desperate he releases a little tiny bit of information in the hope people stay on and “see what happens” For every dollar they save in pilot wages, S.Wu and friends fill their own pockets with performance bonuses. Why else would a company have such a short sighted view about the package while pilots walk out the door in mass numbers?
HKA, HKE. Stay well away. They continue to lead the world at being the poorest managed, poorest paid and most uncertain Aviation companies in the world.