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Joined: Jul 2013
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From: U/S
Just like B scale
Just like the 49ers
Just like DECs
Just like HKPA
Just like _______
"I doesn't affect me, why should I care"
Joined: Aug 2008
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From: Polar Route
Types? A330 regional grind or 747F hodgepodge of two-man middle of the night crap with massive disruption. Bases? Forget about it. Never going to happen for #3200+ on HKPA. Package? Attractive on paper, but if you're not factoring in the cost of living in HK, you are IMC in the cockpit. It's simply not enough unless you are single, married with a working wife sans kids, or you can live with your parents at their place in HK.
But by all means, join! Being a part of the solution to CX's industrial problems will feel great, especially after you have been sufficiently screwed over and realize how much CX actually despises you for being a pilot.
Joined: May 2009
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From: VHHH Ocean 2D
Bottom line is I'm trying to get an understanding of how my current employer really compares. .
Or just couldnt be arsed to read back? Either way if join, your D.O.J will be known to everyone. Don't expect to gain many friends when you join during a training ban and with relations with the company at an all time low. Previous guys who joined during the recruiting ban still living under the stigma.
Joined: Aug 2008
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From: Polar Route
betpump,
Why do we even bother? It's like we are speaking different languages. These guys will turn the job into whatever they want it to be in their minds, only to be the next round of bitter and disenfranchised HKAOA pilots. The cost of HK living cannot be fully appreciated until it has been experienced. Perception is reality, and to many HK and CX still represent a decades old legacy of pilot glamour and affluence. The allure is wearing off fast for those with open eyes, but for those who are wanting to believe, it just doesn't matter. Maybe Islam and 70 virgins will be attractive for them in the future as well.
Why do we even bother? It's like we are speaking different languages. These guys will turn the job into whatever they want it to be in their minds, only to be the next round of bitter and disenfranchised HKAOA pilots. The cost of HK living cannot be fully appreciated until it has been experienced. Perception is reality, and to many HK and CX still represent a decades old legacy of pilot glamour and affluence. The allure is wearing off fast for those with open eyes, but for those who are wanting to believe, it just doesn't matter. Maybe Islam and 70 virgins will be attractive for them in the future as well.
Joined: May 2006
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From: Asia
Joined: Oct 2006
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From: Pretoria, South Africa
The idea years ago to join the TT programme as a pilot with actual experience and be on the level with Ab-initio- and Advanced Cadets did not sit well either.
DOJ is the measure though and I feel for the SOs waiting in line in turn while DEFO are hired.
Joined: Mar 2016
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From: America
S/Os are being bypassed for upgrades as well as F/Os. Seniority means absolutely nothing at this place. Tons of people in the Cat D/B status and with loads of experience. Go have a look at the list and see what dates of hire some F/Os have. It will shock you. The company uses upgrades/promotions as a tool against its crews. The assesment is biased and totally ridiculous. It's also lucky whom you get but we have standards right-RUBBISH.
I hate to say this, we do have some really switched on people, but we also have a lot of "F" tards in the left, well all, seats. Training here is embarrasing at best and God help you if you get a writer or a sim instructor who thinks he's a checker! Concorde boy, now on 777, is a real doozy and more so his boss who had to explain himself in Oz for doing bizzare things.
Look, this Fragrant forum is full of what this place is now. It's FUBAR-period. It's not even fun anymore. We used to say "get away from Hong Kong" but now the stench is everywhere. Like Emirates, people are leaving just to get away from the dysfunction and inbreeding.
Hong Kong is also being overrun by cockroaches and it will get on your nerves. It's also, expensive, polluted and THE EFFING NOSIEST PLACE ON THE PLANET!
Time to leave.
FU CAD
I hate to say this, we do have some really switched on people, but we also have a lot of "F" tards in the left, well all, seats. Training here is embarrasing at best and God help you if you get a writer or a sim instructor who thinks he's a checker! Concorde boy, now on 777, is a real doozy and more so his boss who had to explain himself in Oz for doing bizzare things.
Look, this Fragrant forum is full of what this place is now. It's FUBAR-period. It's not even fun anymore. We used to say "get away from Hong Kong" but now the stench is everywhere. Like Emirates, people are leaving just to get away from the dysfunction and inbreeding.
Hong Kong is also being overrun by cockroaches and it will get on your nerves. It's also, expensive, polluted and THE EFFING NOSIEST PLACE ON THE PLANET!
Time to leave.
FU CAD
Joined: May 2006
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From: Asia
There is any easy way to keep an eye on it. Last time round CX hired DEFOs (10-11 years ago) about 20% got the sack during the training - this should improve since the Rottweiler didn't get extended.
Last edited by AQIS Boigu; 27th May 2017 at 13:06.
Joined: Jan 2008
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From: UK
Just take a look at the last seniority list: there are at least a dozen FOs in the 'SO territory'. There are even a couple of FOs on the last page of the seniority list. Some are sufficiently green to not hide their names from the list!
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From: VHHH Ocean 2D
Joined: Jul 2007
Aviation Qualifications: ATP+Mil
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From: with the ex-CX pond scum (a zoologist was once head of Flight Ops)
I want to know because I doubt the mental competence of anyone who would join this outfit at the current time and under the conditions on offer.