By all means, punish those SOs. That will help with recruitment and retention. The reputation is so good at CX. An endless stream of near 0 hour candidates keep flooding in.
Public, do you feel safe? You have pilots with no experience flying you across oceans at 80% the speed of sound in 200 million dollar aircraft. What seems off about that?
Btw, our seniority list grew by single digit last year. So for all those starry-eyed, spiky-haired recruits, we gained 5 pilots. What does that tell you? Who is going to fly the A350s? Sure, aircraft replacement parking jumbos and A340s, but then what? A330s on lease returned? Sold? Go to KA? Who will fly them at KA? Fuel prices are down. Does CX really want to flood the market with cheap 330s just because they don't have pilots to fly them.
Seriously, CX is farked. They are out of ideas and options. No amount of three man or RP magic fairy dust fixes this. Morale is in the toilet. Pilots either go sick multiple times a year or will just leave / retire. The market and the dollar are up.
Sorry management, but barring a global crisis, you have lost.