EK Roadshow coming to town...JULY
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EK Roadshow coming to town...JULY
EK Roadshow coming to town.. looking for some heads..
Friday 29 July 2016 & Saturday 30 July 2016
10am & 2pm
Roadshow (no invitation required)
Regal Airport Hotel Meeting & Conference Centre,
9 Cheong Tat Road,
Hong Kong International Airport,
Chek Lap Kok, Hong Kong
Friday 29 July 2016 & Saturday 30 July 2016
10am & 2pm
Roadshow (no invitation required)
Regal Airport Hotel Meeting & Conference Centre,
9 Cheong Tat Road,
Hong Kong International Airport,
Chek Lap Kok, Hong Kong
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Shortly2, I see you popping up on different threads, acting the right little cheerleader for CX. That tells me a few things about you. 1) you've only been here 5 minutes, 2) you have probably already volunteered (numerous times) for the simulator trials, flashmob events, SO promotional videos. 3) your mother works in one of the offices. Basically, I can't help but have a mental image of you sitting at CLK on your days off in your pilots uniform and smiling and following the pretty girls when they come into the terminal hoping they notice you are wearing a uniform. Your comments reek of immaturity and naivety. Why don't you go and play outside and let the adults sort this out. There's a good boy....
(copy of post from another thread...but shortly2 seems to be everywhere)
(copy of post from another thread...but shortly2 seems to be everywhere)
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Trafalgar you are so wrong it is almost humorous. Been here a coons age. Only recently been embarrassed to be a pilot because of nasty mouthed redneck clowns like you posting rubbish on an anonymous forum. Of course I am, in the main, a supporter of the company that feeds me and mine. You should be also.
Of course the word 'coon' hasn't been used in a post by a 'nasty-mouthed redneck clown'... or has it?
You really sound a piece of work.
You really sound a piece of work.
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Coon’s age means a very long time. It is an Americanism that has fallen out of favor, and is considered offensive by many people. Coon is slang for raccoon, coined in the mid 1700’s. The term coon’s age was first used in the early 1800’s and in fact, owes its origin to the folk belief that raccoons are long-lived.
COON is the trademark of a cheddar cheese produced by Warrnambool Cheese and Butter company in Australia. It was first launched in 1935 by Fred Walker.
Coon cheese is named after its American creator, Edward William Coon (1871–1934) of Philadelphia, who patented a method, subsequently known as the Cooning process, for fast maturation of cheese via high temperature and humidity.
Coon cheese is named after its American creator, Edward William Coon (1871–1934) of Philadelphia, who patented a method, subsequently known as the Cooning process, for fast maturation of cheese via high temperature and humidity.
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STP - there is no risk in jumping to any conclusion here. Shortly2 deliberately chose to use a pejorative racial term to make a point. Then brilliantly fools us all by claiming he was only talking cheese.Why else would he sign off with '.....knew one of you children would bite'. I guess that passes for humour in Australia.
First Jet 2 and now Emirates all trying to tap into the HK disaffection. And HKA trying a brave attempt to poach from the CX group. It must mean that there's a shortage of pilots around the world. It will be good for the next pay round talks!
Meanwhile, here's the promotional video for Jet 2.
https://youtu.be/6VLYpKGVBUg
Meanwhile, here's the promotional video for Jet 2.
https://youtu.be/6VLYpKGVBUg
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Mock Emirates all you want. It still doesn't change that fact that for the average 'under 35' FO, joining Emirates will probably result in up to 50% more career earnings than if you were with CX. At the very least, they have proper housing. Also, their own critical and worsening pilot shortage will surely lead to even better pay and conditions.
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Shortly appears to be your typical iCadet - proud of his shortcuts & ankle grabbing abilities. How can you impart experience on to an idiot who believes that his decision above all else is correct when he's more myopic that Magoo himself?
This is your future though. And he'll chest beat about how CX puts money in his account and meals on his table.....until he finds some imbecile to fornicate with, get her knocked up and then try to support his family on a C-Scale single income. Genius.
Here's another term that us Australians call the likes of you: w@nker. There's another term used for those who undercut the market and sell out the industry to work for less than their peers. Try and think of it while you're living off those melted cheese sangas that'll be all you'll be able to afford soon enough.
This is your future though. And he'll chest beat about how CX puts money in his account and meals on his table.....until he finds some imbecile to fornicate with, get her knocked up and then try to support his family on a C-Scale single income. Genius.
Here's another term that us Australians call the likes of you: w@nker. There's another term used for those who undercut the market and sell out the industry to work for less than their peers. Try and think of it while you're living off those melted cheese sangas that'll be all you'll be able to afford soon enough.
Yes, I grew up with Coon brand cheese also. The brand was named after its American creator, E.W. Coon (yes, that was his name) and has been marketed as such in Australia for decades. shortly is as transparent as a five-year-old with his last post. If this individual really is operating in the cockpit of a wide-bodied jet, then 'god help us'.
More of a worry is the constriction being placed on CX because of the limitations of its hub. Even yesterday I read of the Chinese having a bad dream and closing an airway in the South China Sea affecting HKG flights. HKIA is becoming untenable as a hub with airspace congestion, weather, ATC issues and now problems with its Communist masters closing airspace. The airline will one day be going nowhere, and promotion will stop.
I understand that there will be five runways at the new Jebel Ali airport in Dubai. Emirates alone will end up with hundreds of shiny A380s, among other types. OK, there is the occasional night India turnaround they do, but there is more chance of piloting a shiny A380 into Heathrow as much as a clapped-out CX A330 into Manila on a split duty.
Worth thinking about.
More of a worry is the constriction being placed on CX because of the limitations of its hub. Even yesterday I read of the Chinese having a bad dream and closing an airway in the South China Sea affecting HKG flights. HKIA is becoming untenable as a hub with airspace congestion, weather, ATC issues and now problems with its Communist masters closing airspace. The airline will one day be going nowhere, and promotion will stop.
I understand that there will be five runways at the new Jebel Ali airport in Dubai. Emirates alone will end up with hundreds of shiny A380s, among other types. OK, there is the occasional night India turnaround they do, but there is more chance of piloting a shiny A380 into Heathrow as much as a clapped-out CX A330 into Manila on a split duty.
Worth thinking about.
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Captain Dart. Promotion in CX is already going nowhere. I have friend who is a 777 captain at EK after only 5 years. It will take 10-15 here....a gap that you will never close in career earnings. Emirates is critically short of aircrew. They will be making big changes to all their conditions. It may not be a panacea, but it is probably now a much better career bet than CX.
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Shortly appears to be your typical iCadet - proud of his shortcuts & ankle grabbing abilities. How can you impart experience on to an idiot who believes that his decision above all else is correct when he's more myopic that Magoo himself?
This is your future though. And he'll chest beat about how CX puts money in his account and meals on his table.....until he finds some imbecile to fornicate with, get her knocked up and then try to support his family on a C-Scale single income. Genius.
Here's another term that us Australians call the likes of you: w@nker. There's another term used for those who undercut the market and sell out the industry to work for less than their peers. Try and think of it while you're living off those melted cheese sangas that'll be all you'll be able to afford soon enough.
This is your future though. And he'll chest beat about how CX puts money in his account and meals on his table.....until he finds some imbecile to fornicate with, get her knocked up and then try to support his family on a C-Scale single income. Genius.
Here's another term that us Australians call the likes of you: w@nker. There's another term used for those who undercut the market and sell out the industry to work for less than their peers. Try and think of it while you're living off those melted cheese sangas that'll be all you'll be able to afford soon enough.
Martin Luther King Jr once said:
Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness
Bitterness and resentment only hurt one person, and it's not the person we're resenting - it's us
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Believe or not I see the blessings hidden in disguise nowadays!
Having been around the traps due the well known circumstances I've seen the airline world from different angles: not just GA, turboprops, & then CX. More over the common theme is greed from self serving airline managements & pilots with less & less experience or credentials saying thank you. For without the greed the standards wouldn't be so low & theyd not have a job (at CX). That inexperience comes from (severe) immaturity, which breeds ignorance & harbours inexcusable arrogance. All the while the spiral goes down.... Guys like this fella are not CX exclusive but indicative of what the industry is fighting against. And they don't have a clue.
Running to EK (i.e., the main topic of this thread) is not the answer in my opinion. What's counter intuitive is that at CX you have a union, ooops I mean "association" to band together to protect your livelihoods & defend against detrimental pressures on your career: safety & standards included. In other parts of the world like the ME you have no such body to band together with. What's ironic is that it doesn't seem to matter at CX as you might as well be at any of the ME3 by the way a) your pilots shaft each other anyway (G day workers, training volunteers, C-Scale, RP,s, etc), and b) no association to truly protect the present & therefore the future of your own careers, safety & standards (refer John Warham).
As written earlier: CX to EK might as well be jumping out of the pot & into the fire. But you guys have a big bucket of water to use to ease that fire. Yet at every turn as history has proven neither the AOA or little soon-to-be-in-the-majority SJS brat has the kahoonas or maturity / experience to use it.
Having been around the traps due the well known circumstances I've seen the airline world from different angles: not just GA, turboprops, & then CX. More over the common theme is greed from self serving airline managements & pilots with less & less experience or credentials saying thank you. For without the greed the standards wouldn't be so low & theyd not have a job (at CX). That inexperience comes from (severe) immaturity, which breeds ignorance & harbours inexcusable arrogance. All the while the spiral goes down.... Guys like this fella are not CX exclusive but indicative of what the industry is fighting against. And they don't have a clue.
Running to EK (i.e., the main topic of this thread) is not the answer in my opinion. What's counter intuitive is that at CX you have a union, ooops I mean "association" to band together to protect your livelihoods & defend against detrimental pressures on your career: safety & standards included. In other parts of the world like the ME you have no such body to band together with. What's ironic is that it doesn't seem to matter at CX as you might as well be at any of the ME3 by the way a) your pilots shaft each other anyway (G day workers, training volunteers, C-Scale, RP,s, etc), and b) no association to truly protect the present & therefore the future of your own careers, safety & standards (refer John Warham).
As written earlier: CX to EK might as well be jumping out of the pot & into the fire. But you guys have a big bucket of water to use to ease that fire. Yet at every turn as history has proven neither the AOA or little soon-to-be-in-the-majority SJS brat has the kahoonas or maturity / experience to use it.
