3 Greens - you strongly suspect I am not a TRE. You suspect wrongly - I am a 320 TRE/TRI. Though I do not do it any more.
el commandante - You are absolutely correct in observing a strong arrogance against pilots with less experience. Mate I don't care if he is Asian, Icelandic or a greyhound - I criticise the decision.
Ok, maybe failing the sim was a harsh call. BUT it would be a harsh debrief point. And my emphasis would be on his decision making abilities/processes.
Greens, you say your understanding is the tech fault was not a land asap at an alternate. Therefore isn't it clear that the flight should have continued to HK?????????? YES, the aircraft landed safely - but THAT alone does NOT make it a good decision. A landing in HK would have been just as safe, the pax are where they want to go, the aircraft is at a maintenance base, no extra fuel is burnt etc etc etc.
Don't tell me in one breath that the aircraft was not in an unsafe state and did not need to go to Manilla, and then in the next breath try to tell me that KK was an acceptable decision when that "safe to fly aircraft" could have continued on to HK.