Always nice to hear info like that, Cliff. Unfortunately, over my two decades with CX I have seen the airline degenerate from a world-leading long-haul airline that identified itself with the whole of Asia, paying top dollar for very experienced crew, to a cheap and nasty outfit that will take anyone with a pulse and, at the moment, a Hong Kong ID card, on conditions amounting to indentured servitude.
Management, particularly in Flight Ops, exhibits a fatal combination of arrogance and incompetence when it comes to crew relations, administration, offshore taxes and foreign labor laws. And the overall experience base in the cockpits is being inexorably lowered by current recruiting policy.
Despite the 'green shoots' appearing in the States, I am not optimistic about this lot changing their ideas any time soon.