Krone, the truck fell over because they extended it without putting the stabilizers down. Nothing to do with crew pushing back.
Giggerty, agreed, it is worrying times for KA, no orders, no expansion plans, potentially the oldest airbus fleet on earth, rudderless ship, managers out of the loop, and impotent senior exec managers not entrusted to make purchasing and planning decisions, offloading the engineering to CASL, getting rid of all the 'expensive' training equipment rather than spending a single cent to upgrade it, we are seeing penny pinching at unprecedented levels, it would be good advice to come in with your eyes wide open, and be prepared to do the same job being paid less than everyone else. That seems to be fine at the start, but by the second year of it, the bitter taste gets harder to swallow.
I would still prefer a command in the same time as it takes to get out of the jump seat, but when the music stops, and it looks from the order books to be stopping very soon. KA for the short term if you have an eye on getting out in 5-10. CX if you want a career, but are happy to do the job for less than everyone else does it for.
In 5 years in KA you will be a captain on some museum piece airbus
narrow body.
In 5 years in CX you will be an FO hoping you get a landing this month.
In ten years in KA you will be a captain, possibly training, but still on the same museum relic you trained on initially.
In ten years in CX you will trying to keep under the radar from the star chamber so you don't get s#it canned before your command training in the next few years.
In 20 years in KA you will sitting in an outer bay with no APU in hong kong waiting 8 hours for your Shanghai slot to come up.
In 20 years in CX you will be a 350 or 777 captain wondering why those cranky KA captains are arcing up on clearance delivery when you call ready for Paris.