Xwindldg/Milking a mouse,
Whoever you want to be this week, we get it that your job is to wind the crew crew up so they will come to the table.
You were also the ones telling us that KA getting the same staff travel on CX was a benefit to CX. You were also the one saying "The sooner you arrogant, sexist, homophobic, racist pricks die out the better. Perhaps then the professional could be put into 'professionalism' with regard to our industry. Putting an end to the ill-informed, lay the boot in, devour your own drivel that has filled this thread. "
We all know how recruiting works, hiring someone takes months, providing notice takes months, getting a CAD letter for conversion terms of an overseas licence is taking over 6 months. Adelaide is full, and new pilots joining the company are being turned away for 6-12 months at a time after finishing Adelaide as there is no one to do their conversion.
A 20 something year old cadet would swallow this, but attracting an experienced pilot with a mortgage, family and bills to pay, and reading the forums on pprune will soon realize that CX is not the place they would want to be.
Anyone with more than half a brain would put 2+ 2 together, if they are willing to screw over people with 30, 20, 10, 5 years of service with the employer. What sort of loyalty will they provide a new joiner on probation ?
Where is the stability ?
Why would you join CX on a base when they are paying significantly less than competition ?
Oh, and thanks to that wonderful idea of joining staff travel lists, those new pilots would not even get priority travel on their own airline.
Did you hear Republic Airways filed for bankruptcy because they could not get pilots, do you see the numbers of pilots being recruited worldwide at the moment ?
Big players in industry all over the world all wanting experienced pilots, and not one or two, it is hundreds and thousands.
Boeing has a production backlog of 5740 aircraft and Airbus over 6787, where do you think the 150,000 experienced pilots needed to fly those aircraft are going to come from ? Employers that treat their employees like crap and pay below industry pay and benefits.