The Management
8th May 2008, 12:02
All pilots are on individual contracts and the AOA cannot collectively bargain on your behalf, unless it is to our benefit of course.
We will be hiring Direct Entry Commands as we see fit to fulfill the needs of the operations. We need cheap freighter pilots and if those pilots are willing to work for less pay and conditions, it is their concern, not yours. This applies to DEFO’s on the unified pay scales.
Yes lower ranking officers will be disadvantaged but we don’t care. If you don’t like what we are doing with regard to Direct Entry Captains or Direct Entry First Officers, leave. Our door is always open for anyone to leave; it’s our open door policy. Give us the pleasure of hiring you back on even lower pay and conditions in the future. With our current expansion plans, it will only extend commands out another 6-7 years and S/O upgrades out another 2-3 years on top of the 3 years plus now.
There seems to be many pilots out there that don’t seem to understand, we do what we want and there is nothing you or your AOA can do about it. What will any of you do, go on strike, have a sickout, golf days, not answer your phone, not use discretion? Look at your colleagues; many are helping The Cathay Pacific Group on a daily basis, especially when there is a crisis like a typhoon.
This pilot group has to be the most pathetic groups in the history of aviation. Just keep whining here on pprune and you will all be fine. We will take care of you.
Pilots are getting cheaper by the dozen; it’s like an Oasis in the desert or a Dragon from heaven. If we keep offering lower conditions, it is quite possible we may get pilots to pay The Cathay Pacific Group for flying our shiny new jets. What a novel idea!
The USA will plunge into a deep recession/depression and there will be many pilots looking to work overseas. There will be many B747-400 and B777 Captains that retire from US airlines early to protect their pensions and those pilots will be available for Direct Entry Commands on a base. We will offer these Direct Entry Captains a Direct Entry Base position with lower pay and benefits. With the benefit of age 65 our crewing will only get easier. It is coming.
Most likely, if you don’t have a base now, you will likely not receive one in your career at The Cathay Pacific Group. If Captains or First Officers are stuck in Hong Kong and are willing to take the Direct Entry Captain position on a base orFreighter Command or the Unified First Officers salary and benefits, we may be able to accommodate you.
If we have difficulty recruiting into Hong Kong because of the dollar value, pollution, housing accommodation, schooling accommodations, etc. those officers will not be allowed to leave Hong Kong and we will recruit directly onto a base in all positions.
With the rise in housing and schooling we may have to reduce those payment by the rate of inflation and to continue those allowances as cash allowances, which are taxed at 15% plus the provisional tax on those allowances. With the extra 3% and profit share, it will more than compensate for your increased tax liability.
Our job is to keep the pilot group as poor as possible in which you will have to work for us longer on reduced pay and conditions. It’s the old factory worker concept and it works quite well.
To My Bonus.
The Management.
We will be hiring Direct Entry Commands as we see fit to fulfill the needs of the operations. We need cheap freighter pilots and if those pilots are willing to work for less pay and conditions, it is their concern, not yours. This applies to DEFO’s on the unified pay scales.
Yes lower ranking officers will be disadvantaged but we don’t care. If you don’t like what we are doing with regard to Direct Entry Captains or Direct Entry First Officers, leave. Our door is always open for anyone to leave; it’s our open door policy. Give us the pleasure of hiring you back on even lower pay and conditions in the future. With our current expansion plans, it will only extend commands out another 6-7 years and S/O upgrades out another 2-3 years on top of the 3 years plus now.
There seems to be many pilots out there that don’t seem to understand, we do what we want and there is nothing you or your AOA can do about it. What will any of you do, go on strike, have a sickout, golf days, not answer your phone, not use discretion? Look at your colleagues; many are helping The Cathay Pacific Group on a daily basis, especially when there is a crisis like a typhoon.
This pilot group has to be the most pathetic groups in the history of aviation. Just keep whining here on pprune and you will all be fine. We will take care of you.
Pilots are getting cheaper by the dozen; it’s like an Oasis in the desert or a Dragon from heaven. If we keep offering lower conditions, it is quite possible we may get pilots to pay The Cathay Pacific Group for flying our shiny new jets. What a novel idea!
The USA will plunge into a deep recession/depression and there will be many pilots looking to work overseas. There will be many B747-400 and B777 Captains that retire from US airlines early to protect their pensions and those pilots will be available for Direct Entry Commands on a base. We will offer these Direct Entry Captains a Direct Entry Base position with lower pay and benefits. With the benefit of age 65 our crewing will only get easier. It is coming.
Most likely, if you don’t have a base now, you will likely not receive one in your career at The Cathay Pacific Group. If Captains or First Officers are stuck in Hong Kong and are willing to take the Direct Entry Captain position on a base orFreighter Command or the Unified First Officers salary and benefits, we may be able to accommodate you.
If we have difficulty recruiting into Hong Kong because of the dollar value, pollution, housing accommodation, schooling accommodations, etc. those officers will not be allowed to leave Hong Kong and we will recruit directly onto a base in all positions.
With the rise in housing and schooling we may have to reduce those payment by the rate of inflation and to continue those allowances as cash allowances, which are taxed at 15% plus the provisional tax on those allowances. With the extra 3% and profit share, it will more than compensate for your increased tax liability.
Our job is to keep the pilot group as poor as possible in which you will have to work for us longer on reduced pay and conditions. It’s the old factory worker concept and it works quite well.
To My Bonus.
The Management.