Originally Posted by
morningcoffee
KA pilots back in 2016 insisted this change would make no difference to staff travel for junior CX crew and that’s so far removed from the reality of 2017.
Just out of interest, why would a large number of new pilots join an offshore based airline and then look at an international commute within a few years? Is it knowing in advance the package not sufficient for Hong Kong residence? Or were they caught out without having done professional due-dilligence once here?
The FOC's were never pushed by the union. They were a deliberate strategy from your HR side to garnish expat B travel funds and offer a no-cost incentive to attract expat pilots to KA on a C scale with rapid command promotion.
18 months to command, 4 FOC tickets a year home to Joh'burg- it's worked a treat I hear.