GTC's summary is everything but "concise". It's plain wrong and based on assumptions alone. Zero facts, no evidence, nothing.
Alternative facts, anyone?
1) Cathay has "nearly twice as many employees as airlines with similar size"
Singapore Airlines group revenue 15 228 $ Million S$ / total employees 21 534
= 707 160 S$ / employee or
= 3 939 296 HK$ / employee
Japan Airlines group revenue 1 344 000 Million Yen / 31 534 employees
= 42 Million yen / employee
= 2 901 847 HK$ / employee
American airlines group revenue 42,2 Billion US$ / 122 300 employees
= 345 053 US$ / employee
= 2 685 271 HK$ / employee
Cathay Pacific group revenue 92 751 Million HK$ / total employees 26 000
= 3 567 346 HK$ / employee
2) To claim " Cathay never invested in IT " is so ridiculous I won't even bother to argue.
3) The "individual cost factor" is the answer. So in other words, if we would not fly with 50 or 60, but with the correct 57,3456 we would make a huuuuuuuge profit, right? What a joke.
4) buying Jeppeson. Sure. because you like the ILS charts this MUST be a good company. Any airline without their service " will never be competitive in the Asian market". Makes total sense.
( by the way, did you notice that most of your "arguments" are somewhat related to your job, to the pilot's view. And all the problems are somewhere else. You think this is a coincidence?? )
Last edited by Sam Ting Wong; 3rd May 2017 at 19:55.