I can assure you I'm not climbing at a rate thats about to set off a TCAS and I completely understand the reasons for the 5/7/9000' level off, I don't go wasting air time hinting we want a climb by saying "maintaining 7000'"
It's the double calls to do what we've just read back, including being level at 7000 and being told to maintain 7000 as if we're going to start climbing? Perhaps crews are reading back "maintaing 7000" as they are preempting the inevitable "maintain 7000".
If carriers are out there screwing this up so drastically lets hear who they are rather than fix it with a politically correct treat everyone the same technique.
How many carriers are using PDC in HK? Perhaps because the PDC doesn't have a stop altitude on it. (I know its on the chart) Are crews are not setting 5000 initially???
How many TCAS events are we getting around TD these days?