Everyone knows...

[plainpilot11]

That these talks have only been scheduled to take the industrial pressure off during the all-important summer travel months. They will inevitably "break down" after summer travel and typhoon season have receded into the past. Which begs the question, why talk at all? We know what the outcome will be. They're not even talking $$$! How crazy is that!

[Farman Biplane]

No $$$ = no agreement for most.

Apparently we are not in contract compliance for $$$ though?

[mngmt mole]

Oh, but we soon will be, and for everything else . :E

[Dilbert68]

Why should these talks take away any industrial pressure??? Comply with your contract and don't go into training, simple.

Talks with the company have never produced anything beneficial for the aircrew for over two decades now, talks change nothing. Contract compliance and the training ban will remain until we get a proper contract that addresses all of our concerns INCLUDING remuneration.

[Threethirty]

You'll be in CC forever then Dilbert

[mngmt mole]

Then so be it ThreeThirty. I am happy to see the rest of my career out staying compliant with CC and the TB. The company however cannot. If the last day of my career is spent defying the company, then it will have been well spent.

[Shep69]

You'd think maybe the second or third time Lucy moved the football Charlie would have gotten wise.

Anyway for the inevitable result:

https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/409f188d-a2e6-4dc8-892d-2f1bdac155bd

And

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNLyZP1jnfY

[Sand Man]

I personally don't see why everyone is so up tight about CC. CC is simply doing what you are paid to do. As far as I can see Cathay has been in CC all the time. When is the last time Cathay did something outside the contract? Therefore CC should be SOP.

TB is a different story and this is where the company is hurting

[Flex88]

I personally don't see why everyone is so up tight about CC. CC is simply doing what you are paid to do. As far as I can see Cathay has been in CC all the time. When is the last time Cathay did something outside the contract? Therefore CC should be SOP.

TB is a different story and this is where the company is hurting

On the nail SM !! If CX wants to move "any" goalpost - they should pay. That's the way they do business so why not the same for us.
The Jellyfish now has the football so it will be his opening play to make his signature mark, my observation is he's NEVER YET stuck his head up on ANY subject, topical or otherwise, and I don't expect him to change now. Those traits are exactly how he got where he is today.
Very sad IMHO, at the exact time when we desperately need an intelligent innovator what we get is a docile compliant conformist.. Swires love this trait in their puppet FOP "leadership".

IMHO, "if" there are any offerings of any type that just "may' nudge some toward a yes vote of any kind, do NOT vote on anything until there is absolute 100% written contractual clarity on the use/implications/benefits of that all important (illusive) software module that "should" allow swap/trades etc.regarding CMP because at this moment in time, your lifestyle quality is ZERO % of the equation.
If you get a pay rise and then have your life "optimised" (i.e. ruined), what's the point.

[mngmt mole]

Flex, you are absolutely correct. CX is going to attempt to bamboozle us into signing on to a contract that will effectively destroy the last hopes of a stable, prosperous career. In particular, we CANNOT allow ourselves to sign onto a CMP setup that "optimizes" our productivity to the complete exclusion of lifestyle concerns. As you mention, a "payraise" (and will that include all the cost of living adjustments due for the past few years, BEFORE an actual increase?) will be worthless if they effectively kill your quality of life in the process. Think long and hard about what you are signing, as this will most likely define what type of career you will be settling for in perpetuity. We have been in CC and the TB for over 3 years now, and personally, I can go another 3 if that is what it takes. Don't throw away the best leverage we have seen in over 20 years. If you do, it is game over. Permanently.

[Farman Biplane]

One could argue that this is the ONLY leverage we have had in the last 20yrs.
I personally would appreciate it if our diverse AOA colleagues DO NOT squander it, please!

[controlledrest]

NO deal if any pilot group takes a cut to conditions. Too many times one group's advantage is paid for by another group.

NO deal unless > 70% vote yes. 50+1 isn't good enough.

[Freehills]

Cathay Pacific CEO Rupert Hogg says airline willing to extend talks with pilots over cuts ? but won?t confirm if it can wait until 2019 | South China Morning Post (http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/2150103/cathay-pacific-ceo-rupert-hogg-says-airline-willing)


“When we agreed to talk, we agreed that we’ll set ourselves a timetable and if we get to a certain point that we need some more time, we’ll take some more time,” Hogg said in an interview with the Post on the sidelines of a global aviation summit in Sydney last week.

[raven11]

“Similarly, while the airline has been firmly losing money since 2016, it recorded a smaller-than-expected loss of HK$1.25 billion loss last year and notched up a profit in the second half of 2017....“on track” to achieve profitability targets by the end of 2019.
The silver lining in the company’s earnings could mean pilots were less likely to accept financial restraint.

They already cut 9% from my salary last year, something they didn’t do with their pilots at Dragon Air, nor the flight attendants at both airlines. This was on top of the multiple cuts I was forced to accept over the past 25 years. No more. I will not be signing any agreement that includes another cut to my salary or benefits.

[mngmt mole]

Raven, it's more than 9%. Factor in the below average (non-existent the past two years) inflationary pay adjustments (notice I did not say "raise") and the real number is getting closer to 12-14%. As you said, I will not be signing anything that involves less than me being brought back to even, and at the very least has the same guarantees as KA. It's absurd that we are now paid less than our sister airline. Further, it must never again be allowed that the Captains of the airline get abused and disrespected in the way they were this past CNY. It's for that reason that I am personally "adjusting" my operation to account for that. Already twice the amount accounted for, and still more than half the year to go.

To the more junior pilots, do not let CX "play" your group agains the group with higher benefits. The ONLY way to reach a better deal is for all pilots to be treated equally. If you participate in undermine those above you, it is a certainty that a few years down the track "you" will be the group being undermined by the new "C/D/E" scale etc... Only a contract that provides ALL the pilots in this airline with increases is acceptable. We must fight for one another. We are ALL being abused by this management.