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Old 10th Feb 2014, 06:43
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Mountain_Ranger
 
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The airline with a big BUT:

A distant friend of mine keeps telling stories along the same line:

Money seems to be ok, BUT: Constant fighting about contractual issues, with the Chinese often pointing out that the Chinese language text of the contract is the legally binding one...and if your English translation is different, it's your problem, isn't it? So docking of salaries for one or the other fishy reason seems to be quite common.

Commuting options seem to be ok, BUT: Chongqing is not exactly the navel of the world when it comes to international connections. There is, for example, only one direct flight to a European destination (HEL). Commuting is essential though, because Chongqing is not really the place to bring your family...no infrastructure for Westerners and tremendous pollution.

Plus he agrees that flight operations and training are far from any standard, with weird invented procedures and a Flight Data Monitoring programme being solely used to blame people and dock their salary
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