Originally Posted by
missingblade
I just love how some go on about the massive high threat environment 'we' operate in here in Asia.
Seriously? Flying a fairly new very well maintained jet onto big runways mostly equipped wit ILS is high threat? Oh - its the atc , its mainland and indonesian atc you say...
Whatever.
Try flying a 320 around Indonesia or the Phillipines regionally onto 6000ft runways with no ILS etc etc. What CX and KA do is not hight threat. Its the easiest flying there is with the most support any pilot has ever had in the history of aviation. Thats why youre safest. And obviously your airlines can afford to hire and train good people. Not trying to take that away from you - just commenting on the environment you operate in.
Try operating in South America and Africa, with massive terrain, way more serious wx and much older less maintained airplanes, non existent navaids and atc who are actually really clueless and radarless. Then come tell me about high threat again!!
If I remember correctly, CX spent many years operating out of Kai Tak. Several other carriers with just a few flights in there wrote off airframes. Of all the videos showing unstable landings there, none are CX aircraft. Plus in the airframe loss avoidance arena for 2014, CX was one of a few airlines paying extra gas to avoid the Ukraine. That is the sign of a safety culture being more than lip service.