no one is indestructable in this industry. what goes around, comes around. there must soon be a total cleanout of the HKAOA executive and a new direction in employee/employer relations embraced. the "recruitment ban" was a farce and a poor industrial tactic. let's face it, even the name adopted -RECRUITMENT BAN - was a joke. the only people who "recruit" is the Company. what could IFALPA have been thinking. did anyone seriously believe that Cathay Pacific were going to take any notice of a directive by a couple of unions to stop recruiting? of course we all know that this was a gutless guise, endorsed and probably initiated by the AOA, and which really was a "joining ban". then we had the up-grades - what a mess! this is where the AOA, not the Cathay pilots, had NO BALLS. a union could not be seen to be supporting a joining ban on pilots - the future membership, so they hid behind a "recruitment ban". very cute but very disasterous for the union in the end.
the clock IS ticking jtr. ticking for the AOA to get it's house in order by changing the guard and make a genuine effort to get everyone under the same banner.