To me it does when one applies:
a) knowing full well the serious ramifications & pressure placed on one's potential colleagues at CX and willfully contributing to the lowering of standards in terms of standards, safety & training, and / or
b) selectively refusing to listen let alone appreciate how & why the overwhelming majority of pilots with the experience that counts (CX & other) know what the CEP means with regards to standards, safety & training for the airline & industry in general.
Financial security?? There is no denying that you may be able to keep your head above water in HK as a lone iCadet without dependents or (irresponsible) need to plan for a future. Save for a secure retirement? Save for a short term goal to buy a property? Plan to save to provide for a future family? Existing on (by the terms of the agreement) an ever eroding remuneration package, ie with reference to the HKPLA? The CEP offer is not sustainable for short or long term career security let alone financial security. Already guys have posted baring witness to actual iCadet accounts of being unable to even save for their tax bill and looking to run at the first given opportunity now that the realities of their error have sunk in. Therein lies the next massive headache for them. Run where? With what credentials or recognisable logged hours? With what money saved? A guy from GA, flying school instructor, regional / domestic airline or charter company with as little as 1 year experience & 500-1000 hrs TT is more employable than a 4-6 year CX iCadet on a widebody by legislation of license and log book hours. By pass pay? No, they ignore that contract term as well.
Job security? How many contracts do CX have to (illegally) tear up for you guys to get it? How many more "sign or be fired" ultimatums to lower your contracted terms & conditions have they got to do? How many more proven & public illegal activities have these guys pleaded guilty to & rewarded themselves with bonuses? How friendly & willing have CX management come to the negotiating table to discuss not pay rises, but simply keeping salaries on par with inflation alone?? (Only after threats of contract compliance and a long winded drawn out process only to throw AHK in the pilots' faces immediately afterward!!) Rostering practices?? Flight Duty & Time Limitations abused & changed continually for the worse, as endorsed by the C(X).A.D.??
How many times?? Never enough when you are ignorant, naive, spineless and a sell-out.
Too many of these iCadet wannabes only see the monthly salary as acceptable because most have zero appreciation of paying bills, rent or can even fathom the cost of a family on a single (iCadet) income, retirement or life's many expensive (!!) "what ifs". And as has also been proven here, they have all but zero regard or comprehension of the career they claim to be "passionate" about.
Last edited by ChinaBeached; 15th Nov 2011 at 20:39.