Emirates HK roadshow.
Jeeze Louise, the last two posters need to take some beta blockers, it's only PPRuNE! One or two posters extolling the comparitive virtues of Cathay Pacific vs. living in the sand pit with EK hardly makes the CX pilot body 'a bunch of pathetic losers'. But it's easy to go 'rah rah rah' on an anonymous internet forum. And bila, you are probably not even a Cathay Pacific pilot so wind your bloody neck in.
Idiots.
Idiots.
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I wonder how much worse they can do than cx when it comes to attracting new pilots. One out of 60 accepted cx's offer last hiring round, and apparantly his dad owns **** loads of property in HK, etc... They've barely raised the bar this time and searching for the lowest denominator via trial & error, so maybe 5 out of sixty will accept this time?! At least EK is offering better housing terms than before, not non-existant or worse than before. CX is quickly realising that it's attraction to pilots all these years has not been prestige or pilots' dream of working for CX...(what a laugh 
) It's been the money! Without it, they don't seem to find anyone to want to come to HK. It was only 3 years ago when they were having no show rates of almost 100% at interviews for the last few major city interviews they set up in the US even with the old housing allwance and that was a huge blow to their ego, but apparantly not a wake up call. They like to pretend it never happened. EK too is learning that it has to pay for insisting their pilots live somewhere they don't want to and that the only ones impressed with anything other than the money they pay, are themselevs. They too are searching for the lowest denominator. Unless you have a working place people enjoy working at, you have to pay a premium for people to come... especially if it's a very expensive or undesirable place to live. Neither of these two companies can claim the first condition (place people enjoy working at), so they have to pay to make up for it.
) It's been the money! Without it, they don't seem to find anyone to want to come to HK. It was only 3 years ago when they were having no show rates of almost 100% at interviews for the last few major city interviews they set up in the US even with the old housing allwance and that was a huge blow to their ego, but apparantly not a wake up call. They like to pretend it never happened. EK too is learning that it has to pay for insisting their pilots live somewhere they don't want to and that the only ones impressed with anything other than the money they pay, are themselevs. They too are searching for the lowest denominator. Unless you have a working place people enjoy working at, you have to pay a premium for people to come... especially if it's a very expensive or undesirable place to live. Neither of these two companies can claim the first condition (place people enjoy working at), so they have to pay to make up for it.
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Hey dont kid yourself, Cathay is no longer a premier airline. Any airline that asks you to take a pay cut to come work for them is not worth your time in my opinion. Unfortunately that is the path they have chosen of late. They may get away with it but to the detriment of the standards and the overall safety of the organization is undoubtable.
Sand box or not, at least they are trying to attract the best, not the cheapest....... Come on Cathay, smarten up
Sand box or not, at least they are trying to attract the best, not the cheapest....... Come on Cathay, smarten up
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Cx Bases? What are you talking about...what bases? You mean the frozen base system!
It will be years before we see bases being offered again.
I would consider EK as an alternative to CX. Their management is just as stuffed as ours.
At least at EK you can book your FOC and get confirmed the day you leave gets approved, not like our begging for space to go home system.
Here at Cx with the new C scale and our new high school SO's do you really think things are going to get better?
It will be years before we see bases being offered again.
I would consider EK as an alternative to CX. Their management is just as stuffed as ours.
At least at EK you can book your FOC and get confirmed the day you leave gets approved, not like our begging for space to go home system.
Here at Cx with the new C scale and our new high school SO's do you really think things are going to get better?
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So, anyone go to the dog & pony show? Or should that be goat & camel show?
Not interested myself, but would love to know what b.s. they're spruiking to trick, er, I mean recruit, unsuspecting pilots to head to the sandy blast furnace.
Maybe the job now comes with free shares in Dubai World, or free shawarmas at your local kebab house?
Not interested myself, but would love to know what b.s. they're spruiking to trick, er, I mean recruit, unsuspecting pilots to head to the sandy blast furnace.
Maybe the job now comes with free shares in Dubai World, or free shawarmas at your local kebab house?
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Dubai on Empty | Culture | Vanity Fair
Love this article... would make me seriously doubt going to EK.
Bet who wrote has price on his head.
Love this article... would make me seriously doubt going to EK.
Bet who wrote has price on his head.
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