TT to restart.
Transition Training (>1500 hours) is to restart in the near future.
Due to insurmountable problems qualifying zero time cadets to the line, CX has applied for visas for foreign, QUALIFIED second officer candidates.
If you're successful, the TT course (basically a HKG ATPL conversion) will run about 3 months in Adelaide and on successful conclusion, you'll be offered a S/O position in CX.
You will join the bottom of the seniority list.
Your salary will be the same as a zero time cadet.
You will be promoted in seniority, if found suitable for promotion.
Average time to JF/O upgrade is about 4 years.
You will be indentured (bonded) for 6 years for your training costs, currently about USD150,000. The bond will be pro rated and amortize with time served.
Details will be made available on the CX website in due course.
For those who don't follow the "Fragrant Harbor" forum (you should), CX is about to close it's Manchester base, making about 80 officers (captains and FOs) redundant. These are pilots, just like you, who joined CX about 6 years ago - in good faith - on DEFO and DEC contracts to fly the 744F out of MAN. WEF 1 June, they will be unemployed.
"Hong Kong's caring employer" indeed.