1 year...

[BabyYoda]

... since they destroyed too many families, by firing all the KA pilots, by firing hundreds of CX pilots, by cutting the CoS of the "lucky" ones by up to 60%.

If you ever feel the need to "help out" again, please reread your emails from one year ago, or just remember how you felt on the 21st of October 2020.

[Oasis]

On the London base they also helped out by voluntarily going to 50 percent. A lot of good that did them.

[Memorylapse]

Just remember that by getting rid of you, it enables them to pay a non PR bedmaker in Hong Kong a salary. I speak for based crew, I speak for KA crew. Just remember, that is the company you are working for.

Thank you for your 20 years service, Captain. We’ll rather keep a 500hr piston hotshot on salary in Honkie.

What a laugh.

[S22]

Being fired by email after 30 years certainly takes the biscuit.

[AndyBrown350]

And another crying post...

[Memorylapse]

AndyClown350,

No one really cried on this thread - just a few comments made.

Remember one thing - life changes. You never, ever know when you find yourself at the bottom end of the cycle next time.

[Table For 1]

A sad anniversary....one can only hope that some of these Swire bully boys are about to find themselves in the dole queue as well. There is delightful irony in CX being outbullied by the CCP.

[cxflog]

AndyClown350,

quick to jump the gun and call everyone out for crying eh. It’s good to have posts like this to remind those with short memories how cx treats it’s pilots

[kmagyoyo]

cxflog I cant figure out is he's a smug PR SO or a 3rd floor troll. Boring either way.

[Will IB Fayed]

And I thought your post was about 1 year to go, not looking in the past. For that is the more interesting date....

[Drc40]

Crying post? What a bozo. Like you've been Rip Van Winkled for the last 20 years and just woke up.

[MPPCAG]

I think it should be you crying Andy if you work for CX, you're the one looking at COS18 or worse for the rest of your 'career'.....

[Oddball77]

HKE COS21 is a taste of whats to come for future CX 'career' pilots.

[dabz]

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[kmagyoyo]

Any minute now the 'tell me one other airline with better conditions you can go to' morons will appear to defend this POS.

CXIT.

[Sqwak7700]

Sounds like they’ve already priced in the massive correction coming in housing. HKG (and China) are about to see their property bubbles burst spectacularly.

Get out of them flats if you haven’t yet boys and girls, they might be repriced for what they are actually worth pretty soon. You’ll be able to then repurchase them, no mortgage, at a fraction of the previous price… but you just won’t have a need for them anymore.

[noboloco]

kmagyoyo

So when are you leaving?

[kmagyoyo]

Annnnd there he is now. Well if I can get more SLV i'll milk that for four more months, failing that December. How about you?

[Oddball77]

Sqwak7700

This 'imminent' housing correction is like saying there's a pilot shortage, I don't see any correction in property prices in HK - the banks, HK Govt, estate agents and home owners have too much vested interest to allow a property crash to happen.

[ng_lan_fly]

:ok: Exactly my thoughts.

[S22]

Ive been hearing that for nearly forty years. When I first arrived a 3000 sq foot House in Clearwater Bay was 1.8 million. I heard repeatedly it’s crazy it can’t last.

[Sam Ting Wong]

Always the same mistake. People simply compare whatever they can buy at home for the same price and then conclude real estate in HK is overvalued. It isn't.

[cxflog]

Exactly the same scenario in Oz. People have been ‘predicting’ a housing collapse for 10 years but it’s only gone up and up. Now with covid that’s pushed house prices in places like Sydney and melb even higher. I don’t see it going any other way if not even a global pandemic can bring the prices down.

[noboloco]

kmagyoyo

I bet that this time next year you are still here, still complaining and saying there are better options and with a similar excuse of “just a few more months”.

[Memorylapse]

Well, happy at least some guys moved on. Some got jobs in the US, the alcoholic from DB went back to AHK, one or two lucky one’s with corporate jobs in Aus. Hang in there - won’t be soon, but will change at some point.

[Progress Wanchai]

Ten years ago the Hong Kong government introduced mortgage restrictions to cool down the property speculators. 50% deposit, additional stamp duties for a second property, additional stamp duties for non-PR, etc. The government could simply unwind some of those restrictions if required.

Unlike Australia which is so desperate to prop up its housing market that it has incentives to buy, as opposed to Hong Kong’s disincentives.
One jurisdiction has restrictions it can ease to assist a falling property market. The other
jurisdiction is throwing printed money around.

Back on topic. All the best to our ex KA and CX comrades wherever you may be. Hong Kong and the company is a lesser place since you moved beyond

[flapsupdown]

FOs AND CNs.

[Dingleberry Handpump]

What’s all that about?

[ascalehero]

Sooo we now have second officers doing P1 'upgrades' on SO pay with a new heavily reduced number of simulator sessions. . If ever the swiss cheese holes were to align with such highly motivated individuals .
Cut the training + cut the pay = cut the standard

[flapsupdown]

P1SO = 2 SO North America flights

[Oddball77]

Wait until P3's flying single crew across the Pacific whilst in the cruise as CX wants to implement by 2025?

[RAT Management]

Pedalz

Why do you think sick leave policy gets a mention in the weekly rag so much? Sick leave is through the roof. A different type of market forces is emerging. It's what the cabin crew have done for years. I also don't see cabin crew filling US tax returns. pilots are their own worst enemy and management know this, so nothing will ever change.

[kmagyoyo]

Thats right nobloco, then i'll hit 65 and become a sim instructor and complain even more!

[herewego75]

Thanks for the sleeping tips, seems like the 747 has sunk to new low's.
Its shocking to see!

Yet the 747 pilots are suckers for punishment. Stand up for yourselves for once!