Hong Kong Airlines (HKA)
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HKA Conditions
I thought this thread was supposed to be about working at HKA and providing facts on things like the interview process, what does the sim check consist of, monthly take home pay, helping newcomers get settled, financial assistance etc.
Anybody care to share any of those things.
Anybody care to share any of those things.
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Welcome to HK, CX guys always put their sticky beaks into everything.
There’s a long running post on Norwegian Long Haul TnC over on Terms n E. The Poster Direct Bondi made 100s if not 1000s of anti Norwegian posts .
A bit like Trafalgar.
Norwegian have just announced record pax numbers, 50
Plus new routes and a happy bunch of 787 pilots, based over Europe and now the USA.
Good luck Traf, but pilots vote with their own feet , and accept perennial wingers for what they appear to be.
There’s a long running post on Norwegian Long Haul TnC over on Terms n E. The Poster Direct Bondi made 100s if not 1000s of anti Norwegian posts .
A bit like Trafalgar.
Norwegian have just announced record pax numbers, 50
Plus new routes and a happy bunch of 787 pilots, based over Europe and now the USA.
Good luck Traf, but pilots vote with their own feet , and accept perennial wingers for what they appear to be.
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Well Krone, not sure what your point is. Traf speaks for the majority, of that I can assure you. And as for 'voting with their feet', that is exactly what most CX pilots are planning on doing (some to Norwegian ironically). Btw, Churchill was also considered a 'perennial whinger' just prior to WWII, but what did he know eh? (what's a 'perennial winger'...someone who flies a lot...? 
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Hainan sold their shares in HKA to Frontier Investment Partner L.P, and they are no longer the majority shareholder..... Hainan owns only 27% direct now according to local news
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HKA is becoming like Emirates with recruitment videos..
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The real answer to the “education” question is “can’t afford ESF or International schools, they’re not at my income level, so we’re sending our kids to a local school”
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The cost of schooling is prohibitive for expat pilots. A decent school, that is based on your home countries standards will cost you hundreds of thousands of hkg $ to even get you children a place, never mind the ongoing costs (and no, CX does not cover the additional costs, which are considerable). No expat that I know would even consider placing their children in a 'local' school, for all the unsaid reasons. 
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Couldn’t care less about Tung Chung to be honest. You can live in many other nicer places.
The thing you guys are missing is the reality of many many many pilots nowadays. Wake up, do 4 legs, 11 hrs duty, 4 landings in possibly bad wx, 15 hrs rest, repeat. Ad nauseam. For half a CX pilot’s salary (C scaler).
If you were 28 years old now that’s probably what you’d be doing too.
I am not defending the sickening management practices and bonuses here, just to be clear. But I just want to remind you why HKA with choice of short and long haul, interesting trips, based in a modern city, is appealing to a lot pf people. Like it or not.
The thing you guys are missing is the reality of many many many pilots nowadays. Wake up, do 4 legs, 11 hrs duty, 4 landings in possibly bad wx, 15 hrs rest, repeat. Ad nauseam. For half a CX pilot’s salary (C scaler).
If you were 28 years old now that’s probably what you’d be doing too.
I am not defending the sickening management practices and bonuses here, just to be clear. But I just want to remind you why HKA with choice of short and long haul, interesting trips, based in a modern city, is appealing to a lot pf people. Like it or not.
The thing you guys are missing is the reality of many many many pilots nowadays. Wake up, do 4 legs, 11 hrs duty, 4 landings in possibly bad wx, 15 hrs rest, repeat. Ad nauseam.