The harsh and unpalatable reality for Cathay Pacific pilots, particularly those presently provided for under “legacy” terms and conditions, is that sum levels of remuneration are inexorably in significant decline.
Unfortunately there is no scope available for comprehensive, co-ordinated and crippling industrial action, without incurring crushing retaliation. Indeed, any attempt at such would invariably be undermined by the large army of self-serving lickspittles sadly prevalent amongst pilot cohorts.
This is the inherent risk of taking employment with an organisation adhering to an antiquated master / servant mentality, and ultimately governed and motivated by eighteenth century labour laws and attitudes.
There are but two realistic outcomes to the current malaise; pilots resigning in such significant numbers that the laws of supply and demand dictate an increase in the recompense on offer, which of course is of no benefit to those possessing the personal integrity and fortitude to have already departed, or alternatively the status quo continues. As management are no doubt aware, this then results in a remaining cowed expatriate employee group, many of whom were unable for various reasons to obtain employment with the national carriers of their native western countries and have limited viable alternatives, quietly acquiescing to whatever is forced upon them.
Inevitably this will lead to the majority quietly submitting to the degradation and erosion of their terms and conditions, in order to maintain ongoing employment and an income of some description, albeit diminished.
This of course assumes the continued ongoing existence and viability of the company, which given the structural, competitive and systemic issues it faces, is far from certain.
Last edited by Fool Sufferer; 17th Oct 2017 at 01:56.