Facts are facts. Over the past 25 years, CX has managed to dumb down the airline, to the point that the aircraft are predominantly operated by spiky haired, steroid pumped, rave party kids. Not the kids fault of course, it's a reflection on their overall age group. The day of reckoning is coming, just as it did for many of CX's peer airlines, where the occasional hull loss is something they stumble through and then move onward to designing the next set of management bonuses. The 'old' CX died about 15 years ago. It is only with the benefit of looking back at what once was, you appreciate how far it has fallen. Many passengers see the 'name' and assume they are flying the same airline they were in the 80's and 90's. If fact, none of that airline exists anymore. They are now being flown by people that are barely old enough to shave. I look around at dispatch and realise that the airline I am employed by is a stranger to me, as are most of the pilots I now fly with. Strange phenomena. I will take no pleasure on the day I look at the front page of the SCMP and read about the inevitable disaster that will one day overtake this airline. It could have, and should have been so different. Greed, incompetence and arrogance. The recipe for the perfect storm.