Who are you kidding?
If anyone thought CX was going to buy KA to grow and promote the KA brand, they must be retarded. CX has and will continue to milk KA of all its connecting passengers and cargo until the brand becomes synonymous with CX. At some point, KA airplanes will start to look like CX and the name may even change to CX Express, proudly operated by Dragonair.
Airline mergers and buyouts are seldom pretty for the labor groups. Only the executives at the top make out like bandits. All things being considered, the KA pilots (not cargo) have made out pretty well so far. It's too bad you have to fly clapped out Airbuses, but what did you really expect? CX to operate older A330s on long-haul and new ones intra-Asia for KA. Let's be realistic about it at least.