50 last year is hardly anything to write home about.
It is when you expected to lose 19. And half of those 50 were FOs and SO leaving for other airlines. Can we afford to become a training airline?
Other employers - world wide, not just airlines - are bending over backwards with part-time work and other tricks to keep their people from leaving, while Cathay (
almost actively) encourages guys to depart.
"I need/want 2 months unpaid leave, please"
"Sorry, cannot"
"Okay, here is my resignation letter, bye!"
A friend of my wife's works as a rostering manager in our local hospital. She reckons there are fewer than 10 full-time nurses (out of about 300). The rest all work 0.8, 0.6, 0.4 shifts. They need more, but can't get them, so they offer work sharing in order to keep the ones they have.