CX Housing Allowance correction
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From: UK
Chaps
There is a tool for dealing with this tool! After years of reading his malevolent nonsense all I now get is:
"This message is hidden because 411A is on your ignore list."
followed by several posts telling him what an idiot he is. Good for the blood pressure, always makes me chuckle and I reckon I still get a balanced view from pprune.
There is a tool for dealing with this tool! After years of reading his malevolent nonsense all I now get is:
"This message is hidden because 411A is on your ignore list."
followed by several posts telling him what an idiot he is. Good for the blood pressure, always makes me chuckle and I reckon I still get a balanced view from pprune.
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From: Nomadic
411A, you really are a nasty, spiteful human being. You may think you are funny and witty and people like listening to you.....but you are sadly mistaken.
Why don't you spend some quality time with your friends and family instead of spouting your misguided vitriol here?
Why don't you spend some quality time with your friends and family instead of spouting your misguided vitriol here?
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From: Arizona USA
Why don't you spend some quality time with your friends and family....
V1 Vibes had it right...
There are no secrets in HKG, so deal with it. What a bunch of turkeys you really are!
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A couple years back, guys on this forum figured out who this 411A was, do a search if you want. Ended up just being some old fart with an axe to grind. I have taken the above advice and he is now on my ignore list.... so go ahead old fart I can't hear you........hello?.......hello? click. FU 
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From: 香港
Sedna,
To sum it up. No.
There are 2 ways to join CX these days. Cadet SO, with no housing allowance, and probably soon by direct entry FO on a base or the freighter, so you will not receive any housing assistance there. You cannot join DEFO in HKG, except maybe on the freighter if you are mad, and even then there is no housing allowance.
PS. B772 is not a rating. B777 rating covers all models.
To sum it up. No.
There are 2 ways to join CX these days. Cadet SO, with no housing allowance, and probably soon by direct entry FO on a base or the freighter, so you will not receive any housing assistance there. You cannot join DEFO in HKG, except maybe on the freighter if you are mad, and even then there is no housing allowance.
PS. B772 is not a rating. B777 rating covers all models.
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From: Hong Kong
What an entertaining evening to have over at the 411a's house.
"Hey guys/family come over and watch me be annoying on an internet site" bet you get lots of takers for that one.
You are as much of a stupid old fool as you have always been.
"Hey guys/family come over and watch me be annoying on an internet site" bet you get lots of takers for that one.
You are as much of a stupid old fool as you have always been.
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From: Arizona USA
bet you get lots of takers for that one.
Fits perfectly.
At CX, it would certainly appear...'fall in line with what the company decides...or do without, 49er style.'
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From: HK
** Under HK Law Housing Allowance is paid in cash and you can use it anyway you please.....and its not taxed!
Cathay however do not pay us a Housing Allowance - the call it a Benefit......so 1. it is taxable 2. you must use it or lose it.
Why CX have chosen to appease the HK IRD (and pi$$ off the pilot body) is a mystery....no other companies/banks - including Swire - treat their expats in this way.
Cathay however do not pay us a Housing Allowance - the call it a Benefit......so 1. it is taxable 2. you must use it or lose it.
Why CX have chosen to appease the HK IRD (and pi$$ off the pilot body) is a mystery....no other companies/banks - including Swire - treat their expats in this way.
So, just to clarify; does everyone at CX entitled to receive housing (including managers), receive a housing "benefit" rather than a housing "allowance"? Or, is it just the pilots that are subjected to these conditions?
That would be a huge double standard if it were so.... but it also wouldn't surprise me!
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From: Arizona USA
Green with envy.
Where I work fully furnished housing is provided, and considering the CX wages haven't gone up much in the last few years, I wouldn't be at all surprised if my salary (all tax-free) is quite a bit more than a senior A-scaler at CX.
CX used to be top of the pile...not any longer.
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From: Sandy beach
Of course you take home the equivalant of 8k US per month to pay for your mortgage plus over 20k US per month like these guys when their wage was frozen back in 1993 
With not a single pay increase since, they still make more than B scale, not to mention huge provident funds, travel allowances etc etc...Yes, 411, the A scale is 17 years old now, long gone, but those guys packages are untouchable. I'm sure you were making 20k a month almost 20 years ago.
Sorry, you'll have to just white flag on this one.
Sorry to hear about the new cadets without the allowance. That's a rough ride in the HK housing market.
With not a single pay increase since, they still make more than B scale, not to mention huge provident funds, travel allowances etc etc...Yes, 411, the A scale is 17 years old now, long gone, but those guys packages are untouchable. I'm sure you were making 20k a month almost 20 years ago. Sorry, you'll have to just white flag on this one.Sorry to hear about the new cadets without the allowance. That's a rough ride in the HK housing market.
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From: up here, everyone looks like ants!
411A is a LONG-RETIRED, former airline pilot (questionable) who lives in front of his PC. He gets his rocks off by tormenting anyone who'll respond to his drivel. It's the credibility he so desperately needs, the recognition he no longer has.
His frame of reference is an obsolete type (L1011) that was brilliant in the 80's but becoming more of a museum piece by the day. The moment the conversation turns to modern aircraft types, his vitriol against GLASS and AIRBOOS picks up, even although he's never flown either. He understands neither.
He can say ANYTHING, claim to be ANYONE, all under the shield of anonymity the Internet affords lurking cretins.
If he bothers you, ignore him. It will upset him more than anything if no-one responds to his claptrap.
It's liberating and empowering to put him on your ignore list.
His identity is dead easy to discover, if you wish to - but DON'T. He'll revel in the attention. It's what he wants.
He NEEDS attention, just like The Guvnor did.
His frame of reference is an obsolete type (L1011) that was brilliant in the 80's but becoming more of a museum piece by the day. The moment the conversation turns to modern aircraft types, his vitriol against GLASS and AIRBOOS picks up, even although he's never flown either. He understands neither.
He can say ANYTHING, claim to be ANYONE, all under the shield of anonymity the Internet affords lurking cretins.
If he bothers you, ignore him. It will upset him more than anything if no-one responds to his claptrap.
It's liberating and empowering to put him on your ignore list.
His identity is dead easy to discover, if you wish to - but DON'T. He'll revel in the attention. It's what he wants.
He NEEDS attention, just like The Guvnor did.