Well, if you have the experience it's 8 weeks to command. And I have friends in EK, so the timeline isn't really that far off. If you were a twenty something FO, where would you go? Hong Kong without housing and almost 15 years plus to command...? Ok, enjoy that life, living in a shoebox and not being able to afford a wife/kids. And those of you in the sandbox should realise that life for a CX pilot now in HK is the same as living in an "utter hole"...