S/Os are being bypassed for upgrades as well as F/Os. Seniority means absolutely nothing at this place. Tons of people in the Cat D/B status and with loads of experience. Go have a look at the list and see what dates of hire some F/Os have. It will shock you. The company uses upgrades/promotions as a tool against its crews. The assesment is biased and totally ridiculous. It's also lucky whom you get but we have standards right-RUBBISH.
I hate to say this, we do have some really switched on people, but we also have a lot of "F" tards in the left, well all, seats. Training here is embarrasing at best and God help you if you get a writer or a sim instructor who thinks he's a checker! Concorde boy, now on 777, is a real doozy and more so his boss who had to explain himself in Oz for doing bizzare things.
Look, this Fragrant forum is full of what this place is now. It's FUBAR-period. It's not even fun anymore. We used to say "get away from Hong Kong" but now the stench is everywhere. Like Emirates, people are leaving just to get away from the dysfunction and inbreeding.
Hong Kong is also being overrun by cockroaches and it will get on your nerves. It's also, expensive, polluted and THE EFFING NOSIEST PLACE ON THE PLANET!
Time to leave.
FU CAD