Agreed. Take everything with a pinch of salt, and that means to do your due diligence to come up with sound reasoning and facts to make a decision and not from a "rumour network" website - as I've written countless times before.
But guys like you FF11 don't do your due diligence before deciding to attack the player and not the ball.
Firstly, people like Dan Buster and Chinabeached are the last people in the world you should be listening to. These are seasoned 'old timers' that are so out of touch with the real world that their opinions are just beyond irrelevant. Unfortunately, these are the guys who joined in the golden era and feel entitled to insult anyone who joins on lesser contracts than them. However, it's still rather comical to find these 'seasoned veterans' sitting on their supposed gold mines whingeing away on PPrune day-in day-out...and it's because they have no one and nothing else to do with their life. Their third wife has already left them, they're feeling lower than low, and the only remedy to their loneliness is to come on PPrune and insult everyone. It's getting old...!
- I interviewed and passed the CX interview in early 2008 and was amongst the first to be offered C Scale. I've been to HK more times than I can recall and with many, many friends at CX, KA, corporate as well as investigated HKA personally and taking the accounts of close friends who were & still are there. So by your opinion I'm the "last person" to listen to? Best sit down and take the advice of someone with none of that first hand experience, eh? Maybe a CX C-Scale iCadet like yourself would be better? (More on that later....)
- "Seasoned old timers?" I'm under 40 years of age. If you'd have bothered to have read my posts from the beginning you'd have worked that much out based on timeline and my own history, as divulged by myself. But you haven't. You've just come up with a deluded account to satisfy your own conceited need to verify your imbecilic attack & reasoning as to why to discredit me, as well as DB.
- "Golden Era"? See the above point. But I will admit to making the most of the options laid in front of me borne from necessity as well as those that experience, credentials and qualifications enabled me to take advantage of. If you had them then you'd understand and wouldn't write such embarrassing and resoundingly inaccurate lies about me and others.
- "Insult"? If this is insulting then good. It's meant to. I'm very blunt and harsh. I don't suffer fools, hence my vitriol toward fools writing inaccuracies about me. In my previous post on this thread I, like others, had had enough of some similar fool begging for cheat-notes (dare I say the "Vol-8's") on how to pass a widebody DEFO sim. I & those before your pitiful existence passed the CX interview to a standard C-Scale iCadets could never fathom. So you pretending to fit into any form of a pilot uniform is insulting, hence I choose my words as I see apt and correct. I actually insulted myself in even writing it for him so as just to shut him up. But after all, that's the standard some people and airlines accept nowadays, as you're evidence of. (Imagine relying on a "rumour network" to turn to for "factual information"? Agreed - it's insulting to one's intelligence to read....)
- "Third wife?" No. Happily married to the same first and only wife I could wish for. Even with a job that has given me thus far greater career progression and long term financial security than CX, KA or HKA could. My wife and I are are very happy. Strange to a guy like you that someone under 40 can have a secure job in an airline, with good career progression and be extremely happily married, eh? You made your decision, my wife & I made ours. We're happy. By your own admission you can't say the same.
after spending 5 years here I am ready to leave.
So, I'll do with you what you couldn't seem to do regarding my profile: it's 2016, you've been at "that other dreadful airline" for 5 years, hence you joined in 2011. Inductive reasoning (look it up) says you're therefor most likely at CX, & I'm almost 100% sure I'm right. A such that also dictates that you're a C-Scale iCadet [and that is how you'll be known for life no matter where you go in your career]. So after "2 years" as an FO you've amassed only 2 years of ICAO recognised hours since the CX P2X (SO) rating hours are not ICAO recognised. Some airlines I understand may make a waiver and accept 500 hrs of your sandwich hours, but I know of maybe only one. You've therefore amassed 175 hrs for your CPL, approx. 1500 hrs as an FO = approx. 1675 of
ICAO recognised hours. With that total aeronautical experience you think you're some super cool dude reverse high-fiving pilot beach volleyball player, don't you?! And if you do have more hours than that and came to CX with more hours only to be a C-Scale iCadet then you're more of a fool than you've exposed yourself to be. It just means you were a failed pilot elsewhere who couldn't get a job and so had to take the scraps to be the cheapest backside in a seat. And still I'm the last person to take advice from you say? You begged for & took what I threw away as a pathetic insult & from that stand point your opinion counts?
From the UK? If so you might be one of those illustrious RAF "classroom pilots" who actually never even started their flight training and were subject to budgetary cuts and hence lost their seat in the classroom before understanding what a 1:60 was. But fast jet pilots you weren't, no matter how many times such UK C-Scale iCadets start a conversation with "I was in the RAF....".
And yet it's strange that so many reputable airlines aren't banging down the door of your "decent flat (2-3 bedroom [
which is it?], 600-800sq' [
which is it?]) costing around $20-32K [
which is it?] in rent..." You don't seem to know the size of your own flat, how many bedrooms it has or the cost of rent you pay and I'm the one not to take advice from? Seriously?
So in short, you're a guy who took the sh!t sandwich deal whilst everyone told you it was rubbish and of course must defend it with lies and accusations against others' characters who speak out against what you begged for. By all means you've the right to speak in your defence, but try using facts and not shear and utter lies about those who disagree with you.
Other points you raise about HK are valid. It's just a shame you're an exposed liar about the first part of your idiotic, immature and self-exposing reasoning.
Now, back to HKA....
HKA has turned over more Fleet Managers and senior managers than any other airline in the region. Why does this not set off alarm bells? Much as the last, the current DFO is nothing but a self serving snake from what I am told by those who are there and have suffered his backside covering management techniques. A (former?) influential senior executive was banished from Singapore by decree of the Singaporean Prime Minister. Still no alarm bells? They recruit CX CAT D pilots and fast track them to Cmd. Yes, they take pilots that CX stated (prior to C Scale) could not be promoted and made them Captains. One is even the Deputy Tng Mngr and designated 330 Test Pilot. Still looking like a great airline to work for? They were put on the CAD CAT 2 list for continual safety breaches and only just came off it not long ago. They operated widebody aircraft for years without being capable of being granted ETOPS approval due the CAD refusing to grant it after continual flight ops and safety breaches. Their continued promises of fleet expansion has been proven to be lies upon lies. Where are the 777's that were due in 2011/2? Where are the 380's due in 2013/4? If it happens, good, but bank on it based on their history? No, I couldn't and wouldn't. They are at the mercy of the HNA group and your contract states that you can be relocated at the Company's will - at least that's the contract I saw & have on my computer from 2011. See FF11, this is called "due diligence". Know what you're talking about before shooting your mouth off. I know what HKA was like then and is now and hence I know it was a good choice to stay away from when I turned down an insulting pay packet from CX that you lapped up.