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Just 11 years ago, a newbie was asking a whole lot of questions when he was trying to get into Cathay, and again when they gave him a 747 freighter base job in North America.
He didn't like being seated down the back when commuting on US carriers despite travelling in his new airline pilot's uniform
but he was very happy to have a job with a legacy carrier.
And on the plus side, rapid command/seniority jumping was "available to anyone in the company that passes a command assessment. If an FO has been with the company 8 years and wants a Freighter command, all he has to do is apply."
So how does a guy whose been given a whole lot of advice on Prune, even about doing his BFR to fly his N-reg GA aircraft and buying Bose's for it etc respond when someone else (a 320 captain in another airline) asks very politely for insiders opinions about applying to Cathay as a direct entrant FO?
I love the little throw in about you being a 320 captain. Good for you! Your mother must be proud. But if you want to join a real airline, that doesn't mean anything (especially being a light twin.) You join at the bottom like everyone else.
Of course -- you can always just jump from one crap start-up airline to another. You'll probably even get to keep your beloved Baby-Jet, 4-Bar thing if you do, so you won't bruise your delicate ego.
Someone else assured the OP that "not everyone in CX is a rude moron".
Why am I not surprised by the reaction of this 11 years with the company sky-god when a colleague (61) gets arrested at LHR?
Hopefully this involves getting fired.
He'd only been with Cathay for 5 years when he was asking what the experience of the 55+ guys added to the company and only 6 years when he was complaining about "old farts that won't leave" even though nearly all the world's airlines had moved retirement age to 65.
We don't need any more stupidity in the cockpit than we already have.
We?
Not every American is an arrogant ***hole, but folks like
Pogie don't help.