Hiring onto a Base?
Iceman, you're not quite right.
No CX pilot has been hired directly onto a Base. What CX did in cases in the past when there were unfilled vacancies on a Base (eg freighter jobs no one wanted) was to recruit into HKG and then on day 1 in HKG apply for a Base vacancy, get accepted, resign from CX and join Veta Ltd. Easy peasy.
But the reality is that they did recruit directly to a Base - they always seem to find a way to cheat their way through.