Sorry, wrong wrong and ..........wrong.
mate, stop drinking whatever juice they've got you on.
based guys have their head in the sand, sticking to the hope that 'it's too expensive to bring us back' or 'everyone will just quit.' For one, it's not too expensive considering we've got 200 icadets in 2011 and another 300 coming next year. Each new cheap icadet offsets whatever costs may occur over the remaining short life of expats benefits in hk. Secondly, very few pilots are going to quite immediately, proving a trickle of resignations offset by cheap icadets and direct-entry blokes on C scale.
Reality is setting in in hong kong where most expats between 30 and 40 are currently updating their resumes trying to salvage a career job somewhere where their wife and kids can live for the next 25-35 years.
bases are dead. they will not open again. anything else is delusional.