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We will 'MAKE' you a pilot who cares if you have no aptitude or ability for the the job we need bums on seats, fast, please please accept our worthless contract and come fly our new shiny jets for us...
All with a straight face
All with a straight face
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I hope there is a special place reserved in hell for corporate management types that regularly trot out their "passion" for something, without any other evidence except their word that it exists at all. Completely unconvincing.
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She is correct, you do get to see the world , but from 35,000 ft with the exception of China where you cannot even see the ground
Then once you land after a grueling 16 hour flight , you are transported to a hotel in the middle of nowhere that doesn't have a 24 hour coffee shop , you are hungry, Because your body is insisting that it's lunchtime . Yet it's after midnight local time so the coffee shop / restaurant is closed and all that is on offer is an exorbitantly expensive snack .
24 hours of broken sleep and you get to do it all over again
YUP That's living the dream and seeing the world . One hotel room at a time
Then once you land after a grueling 16 hour flight , you are transported to a hotel in the middle of nowhere that doesn't have a 24 hour coffee shop , you are hungry, Because your body is insisting that it's lunchtime . Yet it's after midnight local time so the coffee shop / restaurant is closed and all that is on offer is an exorbitantly expensive snack .
24 hours of broken sleep and you get to do it all over again
YUP That's living the dream and seeing the world . One hotel room at a time
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Can one of you CX people please explain to this retired UK pilot how the appointment of Ms Thompson was explained to you? What aviation background does Ms Thompson have? Does the HKG CAA (Sorry have forgotten their proper name) not have the same policy as the UK CAA of having the senior post holder named in the AOC of being a pilot? (There was an occasion a few years ago when Big Airways wanted to make the Operations Director in charge of Flight Operations. This was stopped by the CAA)
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Welcome to hong Kong and Cathay mate!
Where a contract means as much as bog roll.
Where the HKG CAD are on the payroll
Where the CEO is nicknamed Ivan Who, and would barely pass ICAO level 4 Engrish.
Welcome to hong Kong and Cathay mate!
Where a contract means as much as bog roll.
Where the HKG CAD are on the payroll
Where the CEO is nicknamed Ivan Who, and would barely pass ICAO level 4 Engrish.
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Heard the following rumour that the person responsible for the disastrous FOUR YEAR FUEL HEDGING STRATEGY...ffs!...now in charge of HAECO, was the subject of a sexual intimidation complaint made by a certain middling AHK manager. To keep the whole thing quiet and in-house, he was pushed aside to Haeco and the middling AHK manager was promoted to DFO!!....you just couldn't make this stuff up if you tried!
Heard the following rumour that the person responsible for the disastrous FOUR YEAR FUEL HEDGING STRATEGY...ffs!...now in charge of HAECO, was the subject of a sexual intimidation complaint made by a certain middling AHK manager. To keep the whole thing quiet and in-house, he was pushed aside to Haeco and the middling AHK manager was promoted to DFO!!....you just couldn't make this stuff up if you tried!
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I hope someone is saving all these YouTube clips for when we make headlines for the wrong reasons. Then, when everyone is asking "how could this have happened", we can just forward all these ridiculous ads to the media.
Because you know all these videos with spiky haired children and clueless managers will be taken down in record time when we have our first "AirAsia" event.
Because you know all these videos with spiky haired children and clueless managers will be taken down in record time when we have our first "AirAsia" event.
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It would be like polishing a turd.
It is unbelievable that CX see this as constructive advertising.
I guess they figured makeup and a perm wouldn't help.
It is unbelievable that CX see this as constructive advertising.
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What? Exciting time to see the world?
Is that the requirement for the job, to want to see the world?
Had a crew member position with me to NYC recently, he had never been to NYC in any capacity previously but I had given him 48 hrs notice that he and I would be doing the first rotation out of NYC direct to HKG the next night. OK, so he turned up looking a bit tired. By top of climb he could hardly keep his eyes open. Turned out that he had 2 hours sleep in the 20 hours in NYC as there were 'required tourists things to do'...i.e. Anna Thompson's 'Exciting time to see the world' senario! Thanks Anna! He was a waste of space. Consequently it was single pilot IFR across the Pole until the 2 experienced (very competent FOs from previous experience and 20+ years of flying) took over.
I thought that 35 years ago, in an aircraft under 5700 kg, single pilot IFR had been confined to the past and now with 35 years as an Airline Pilot I find I am once again flying the same senario but with a 442,000KG aircraft and still flying single pilot IFR.
Spot the problem!
Is that the requirement for the job, to want to see the world?
Had a crew member position with me to NYC recently, he had never been to NYC in any capacity previously but I had given him 48 hrs notice that he and I would be doing the first rotation out of NYC direct to HKG the next night. OK, so he turned up looking a bit tired. By top of climb he could hardly keep his eyes open. Turned out that he had 2 hours sleep in the 20 hours in NYC as there were 'required tourists things to do'...i.e. Anna Thompson's 'Exciting time to see the world' senario! Thanks Anna! He was a waste of space. Consequently it was single pilot IFR across the Pole until the 2 experienced (very competent FOs from previous experience and 20+ years of flying) took over.
I thought that 35 years ago, in an aircraft under 5700 kg, single pilot IFR had been confined to the past and now with 35 years as an Airline Pilot I find I am once again flying the same senario but with a 442,000KG aircraft and still flying single pilot IFR.
Spot the problem!
Too true, but just sometimes I get to fly with pro's. 48 hrs recently in 'Chicago' . Nice view of the Lombard car park. Survived on midnight rations from the Target supermarket next door. Mindnumbing.
BUT, and very importantly: return flight was a non event. All cockpit crew totally professional: Nobody saw daylight or any of the 'sights' during layover. See the world? xxxxxxxx. Nope, too tired for The DFO's Vogon poetry.
BUT, and very importantly: return flight was a non event. All cockpit crew totally professional: Nobody saw daylight or any of the 'sights' during layover. See the world? xxxxxxxx. Nope, too tired for The DFO's Vogon poetry.
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