Staggers and Globocnik
Level C and D staff are made redundant in May, these positions are management positions. Rumour has that level A and B staff redundancies are coming in August. Lets face it, if you compare CX to any other airline in similar size CX has nearly twice as many office employees and way too many managers. The reason why? CX never invested in IT technology. Believe it or not there are still many tasks accomplished by hand, white board and Excel. Many of the internal supporting IT systems run on MS DOS. I wonder who knows how to maintain these systems. Competing airlines running integrated IT systems, which take care of everything, even calculating individual cost indices per flight resulting in minimum total cost for the flight. Taking in consideration, crew cost, fuel burn, maintenance cost, administrative, leasing, capital cost and many more factors. There are several vendors out there offering these systems. Jeppesen is one of those vendors, however CX in their great wisdom decided to buy only one module (CMP) and will decide on the PBS system in the near future. All other modules of this system are not even considered.
The question is how many level A and B employees can be made redundant with no proper IT technology in place. It will take many years and 100's of million USD to fix the IT infrastructure. Without fixing the IT hardware and software structure CX will never be competitive in the new asian airline market place.