Re: just leave
Rodscurtain, the suggestion to 'just leave' wasn't just my own. In fact, I remember thinking that it was more or less suggested that it be looked at as a realistic option in the 4th ed of the Aoa times in December of last year. I assume that was what was hinted at given that everyone received a half page of airline recruitment links anyway.
On the subject at hand, I have my own opinion surrounding pilots who elect to fly when they are knowingly unfit, whether it be fatigued or otherwise. I'm sure that most professional pilots, including yourself, would share the same opinion.
As for a show of solidarity when it comes to these issues - it is fairly obvious that as long as individuals continue to fly fatigued and continue to put up with all of this crap, very little will be done from the company's side to change anything.
Young SO's are joining this company in droves yet the number of pilots leaving does not appear to reflect that there is a large scale problem.
So I guess the question your friends in management are asking is, 'Is there even a problem?'
Things have never gotten better in Cathay in the last 10 years, only worse - I just wonder why anyone would continue to blindly hope and pray against all hopes that anything would change for the better now?