Does Cathay Still Have a Bad Reputation?

[aviationluver]

Haven't flown professionally in a while. I'm thinking about getting back in. Does Cathay still have a very negative view with respect to working there as a pilot? Last time I checked, it was amongst the last places for pilots nowadays to apply. Pilots said HK is bad place to live. Cathay is hypersensitive and treats their pilots like garbage. B pay scale. No housing for ex-pat pilots, etc.

Has anything changed?

[schweizer2]

You may want to re-post or move this to Fragrant Harbour, home of the CX crew.
Then brace yourself.

[Mumbai_radio]

The latest package, CoS 18, I received from them says the “target salary” for a new FO is 825,000HKD per year before tax and 18,000 housing allowance. I think you can take home pretty much the same amount anywhere in Asia. So i guess it all depends where and how you want to live.

[Frogman1484]

You will only make that much if you achieve their targets, which are not reachable at the moment. For the past few years, I have only achieved 85% of their target, so you are actually looking at only getting $700,000.