Trafalgar
21st Dec 2017, 23:18
Where does one begin? It’s difficult to sort through excrement, as it shifts around your feet as you wade through it. However, i’ll make an attempt.
1) Regarding the Mercer Group recommending remuneration figures for the Executive Committee, and the comment that “remuneration was equivalent to that paid to other peer group companies”. Let me guess; they looked at ONLY the top paying airline groups for comparison. Unlike the Pilot pay comparison, where they looked at every LCC in the industry as their benchmark. Ok Dominic, we’ll just ignore that salient fact. Let the 'fiction' continue...
2) The paying of bonuses to the Executive: That is undoubtedly referring to their “CX” bonus. No mention of their “Swire” bonus. Of course you would neglect to mention that…
3) Regarding Flight Crew remuneration: as a long gone (but highly respected) Fleet Manager once said at a 'commitment day' to Tony “The Liar” Tyler (another not missed appalling manager): “at Wimbledon, the Players generally do make a bit more than the ball boys”…. You are distorting the facts regarding what we get paid (using overtime as an example, which is solely due to your pathetic rostering). Lies/ statistics…we know the difference. Apparently you do not.
4) Regarding the AOA mentioning a “return to profitability” and your comment that “you don’t understand why we would do so at this time”. Well, perhaps you might take exception to most of the main investment banks in HK who have ALL stated publicly that they feel CX is “returning to profitability”. That might be WHY the AOA has mentioned it NOW. You need to get out a bit Dominic.
5) You mention “increasing productivity and reducing cost base”. Well, as one example (me), I flew 900 hours last year, and my cost to you in ‘real’ terms (inflation adjusted) is about half what it was 20 years ago. For reference: the total cost of pilots to the company, expressed as an average, is about 50% per pilot what it was 20 yrs ago. What more exactly do you want from us? Come after any more of my value and yes, I will take it personally.
6) Your comments regarding medical: seriously, you make me ‘ill’ (pun intended). You have cut Dr’s from the panel like the plague cut through the world’s population during the 1300’s. Further, you implemented a ‘sickness management program’ designed to intimidate pilots from calling in sick (even when they are). You have no integrity on this issue, so best keep quiet. FYI, enjoy the sickness rates over the next few months.
7) Resignation rates: Seriously Dominic? You are seriously trying to convince us that all is well? When I joined, NO ONE resigned. Not one person. Now, I don’t fly without someone telling me they are interviewing, already given notice, or even better, not giving you ANY notice and just leaving without telling you. Your panic is showing with such a pathetic and laughable response on the subject. FYI, the rate of resignations is only just getting started. Enjoy.
8) 2 SO LRO: you throw a ream of double-speak at us, the very people who actually have to deal with the real consequences of your foolish policy(ies). The other airlines that do this also have far more robust scheduling and rest rules underpinning their 2 SO schedules. Of course, CX (and you as a willing accomplice) choose to ignore those facts, and pretend that you are only copying our competitors. I would safely bet our competitors aren’t looking at dozens of resignations per month. Oh, and btw, I’m sure the SO’s in the company really appreciated the sudden increase in their time to upgrade. Nice own goal. They and the entire middle ranks of pilots in this airline are the ones who are looking for other employment. You have only helped them make their decision to leave that much easier.
9) HKPA and RP: stop with the rubbish, please. You insult us and demean yourself. If you are so concerned about HKPA, then arbitrarily raise it to account for almost TEN YEARS of inflation (never mind the exponential rise in housing costs over that time period, greatly outstripping the overall inflation rate). As for RP’s: AT stripped those out for 3 man LRO, and for what?, a failed policy and now going on almost three years of industrial warfare. Most of the pilots in this airline have come to realise they have NO hope of providing for them or their families in the future. They are leaving. Congratulations, you will have soon achieved what you and your management colleagues obviously want, an airline with no pilots.
You and your management are failures at every level. The entire industry is making record profits, AND paying their employees higher salaries and better benefits (and demonstrating that they respect and value their pilots). You are a disgrace to the word ‘management’, and certainly you have NO resemblance to the word ‘leader’. You are an embarrassment and your pathetic diatribes masquerading as ‘Pilot Briefings’ fool not a SINGLE pilot in this company.
A ‘friendly’ suggestion: take a few days to earnestly review the comments from over 700 (SEVEN HUNDRED) pilots on Yammer. That should indicate to you just how much you and your colleagues have failed. Alternatively, find a job in London at some nondescript admin company. Your talents are wasted here.
1) Regarding the Mercer Group recommending remuneration figures for the Executive Committee, and the comment that “remuneration was equivalent to that paid to other peer group companies”. Let me guess; they looked at ONLY the top paying airline groups for comparison. Unlike the Pilot pay comparison, where they looked at every LCC in the industry as their benchmark. Ok Dominic, we’ll just ignore that salient fact. Let the 'fiction' continue...
2) The paying of bonuses to the Executive: That is undoubtedly referring to their “CX” bonus. No mention of their “Swire” bonus. Of course you would neglect to mention that…
3) Regarding Flight Crew remuneration: as a long gone (but highly respected) Fleet Manager once said at a 'commitment day' to Tony “The Liar” Tyler (another not missed appalling manager): “at Wimbledon, the Players generally do make a bit more than the ball boys”…. You are distorting the facts regarding what we get paid (using overtime as an example, which is solely due to your pathetic rostering). Lies/ statistics…we know the difference. Apparently you do not.
4) Regarding the AOA mentioning a “return to profitability” and your comment that “you don’t understand why we would do so at this time”. Well, perhaps you might take exception to most of the main investment banks in HK who have ALL stated publicly that they feel CX is “returning to profitability”. That might be WHY the AOA has mentioned it NOW. You need to get out a bit Dominic.
5) You mention “increasing productivity and reducing cost base”. Well, as one example (me), I flew 900 hours last year, and my cost to you in ‘real’ terms (inflation adjusted) is about half what it was 20 years ago. For reference: the total cost of pilots to the company, expressed as an average, is about 50% per pilot what it was 20 yrs ago. What more exactly do you want from us? Come after any more of my value and yes, I will take it personally.
6) Your comments regarding medical: seriously, you make me ‘ill’ (pun intended). You have cut Dr’s from the panel like the plague cut through the world’s population during the 1300’s. Further, you implemented a ‘sickness management program’ designed to intimidate pilots from calling in sick (even when they are). You have no integrity on this issue, so best keep quiet. FYI, enjoy the sickness rates over the next few months.
7) Resignation rates: Seriously Dominic? You are seriously trying to convince us that all is well? When I joined, NO ONE resigned. Not one person. Now, I don’t fly without someone telling me they are interviewing, already given notice, or even better, not giving you ANY notice and just leaving without telling you. Your panic is showing with such a pathetic and laughable response on the subject. FYI, the rate of resignations is only just getting started. Enjoy.
8) 2 SO LRO: you throw a ream of double-speak at us, the very people who actually have to deal with the real consequences of your foolish policy(ies). The other airlines that do this also have far more robust scheduling and rest rules underpinning their 2 SO schedules. Of course, CX (and you as a willing accomplice) choose to ignore those facts, and pretend that you are only copying our competitors. I would safely bet our competitors aren’t looking at dozens of resignations per month. Oh, and btw, I’m sure the SO’s in the company really appreciated the sudden increase in their time to upgrade. Nice own goal. They and the entire middle ranks of pilots in this airline are the ones who are looking for other employment. You have only helped them make their decision to leave that much easier.
9) HKPA and RP: stop with the rubbish, please. You insult us and demean yourself. If you are so concerned about HKPA, then arbitrarily raise it to account for almost TEN YEARS of inflation (never mind the exponential rise in housing costs over that time period, greatly outstripping the overall inflation rate). As for RP’s: AT stripped those out for 3 man LRO, and for what?, a failed policy and now going on almost three years of industrial warfare. Most of the pilots in this airline have come to realise they have NO hope of providing for them or their families in the future. They are leaving. Congratulations, you will have soon achieved what you and your management colleagues obviously want, an airline with no pilots.
You and your management are failures at every level. The entire industry is making record profits, AND paying their employees higher salaries and better benefits (and demonstrating that they respect and value their pilots). You are a disgrace to the word ‘management’, and certainly you have NO resemblance to the word ‘leader’. You are an embarrassment and your pathetic diatribes masquerading as ‘Pilot Briefings’ fool not a SINGLE pilot in this company.
A ‘friendly’ suggestion: take a few days to earnestly review the comments from over 700 (SEVEN HUNDRED) pilots on Yammer. That should indicate to you just how much you and your colleagues have failed. Alternatively, find a job in London at some nondescript admin company. Your talents are wasted here.