"C" Scale STC!

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From: London
Yes, it's true. The bigger point to consider is just how desperate the company is to keep trainers/checkers to throw aside their own rules to make this exception. The wheels are falling off (although there will always be someone who sells themselves cheaply). The training department can barely cope, and this is living proof of that fact. To all the rest of the C and T members, take note.

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From: Earth
Game over, can't win now, not when guys will sell their souls at their own expense and the expense of their colleagues. Watch this space but this will be used against us. C or D scale for a contract extension

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Of course it will. What part of 'ever decreasing terms' haven't you figured out about CX yet? At least I see many of my colleagues (as well as myself) leaving early. It does amaze me how people could have had full terms and conditions to 65, but end up working for C/D scale for that extra 10 years. Hard to have nothing but contempt for these individuals (of which CX seems to excel in employing). At least the middle-seniority pilots have figured it out and are actively seeking a better career elsewhere. Regardless, the fight is bigger than a few COS99'ers, and we need to focus our efforts on demonstrating our true worth this holiday season.
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From: Hong Kong
What a Pratt , decline to go onto B scales a number of years ago because he wanted to retain COS 99 and now thumbs his nose at everyone to take a C scale extension .
Absolutely nothing but contempt for this individual
Absolutely nothing but contempt for this individual
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From: Hong Kong
So after much pushing by the pilot body the poor company finally gives in. ARAPA heads for the !!!!ter as hkpa is apparently now plenty. CC heads for the !!!!ter as everyone extending to 65 is in training.
And C scalers get an extra 3 yrs as an S/O and F/O thanks to everyone going to 65.
Next AOA vote will be interesting. Probably why B scalers wanted to do a “vote for your own conditions only” while shafting those who joined CX after them.
As always, every man for himself.
And C scalers get an extra 3 yrs as an S/O and F/O thanks to everyone going to 65.
Next AOA vote will be interesting. Probably why B scalers wanted to do a “vote for your own conditions only” while shafting those who joined CX after them.
As always, every man for himself.
short flights long nights


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Am I getting this right? These individuals were A scale captains, retired, and are now sim instructors on a C scale..am I understanding this correctly?
Don't these people have a life...are they so devoid of any personality that the only thing they can define themselves as is "A Cathay Person".
What a sad bunch they must be.
Don't these people have a life...are they so devoid of any personality that the only thing they can define themselves as is "A Cathay Person".
What a sad bunch they must be.
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From: Hong Kong
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Why would you want to point that out unless you are Management?
What you are missing is market forces. Regardless of unity, pilots can always vote with their feet. Sure, the cubicle pilots at the bottom of the seniority list are stuck and maybe some with HK homes already paid off stay, but everyone else can leave. Many will, and how does that work in the face of a training ban and a growing airline?
You and the other fake management want to make the airline smaller? Go ahead, see where that gets you. It will only accelerate the departure of qualified pilots and decent revenues.
Admit it, CX is in the proverbial death spiral. No matter what they do, it only gets worse, unless they want to do the right thing, which apparently is not an option. Face saving?
So, I will watch the airline sink, milk it for every last cent, and then jump into a liferaft supplied by the booming demand for pilots. Where will you go? Another Coke bottling plant in the Mainland? Enjoy!
What you are missing is market forces. Regardless of unity, pilots can always vote with their feet. Sure, the cubicle pilots at the bottom of the seniority list are stuck and maybe some with HK homes already paid off stay, but everyone else can leave. Many will, and how does that work in the face of a training ban and a growing airline?
You and the other fake management want to make the airline smaller? Go ahead, see where that gets you. It will only accelerate the departure of qualified pilots and decent revenues.
Admit it, CX is in the proverbial death spiral. No matter what they do, it only gets worse, unless they want to do the right thing, which apparently is not an option. Face saving?
So, I will watch the airline sink, milk it for every last cent, and then jump into a liferaft supplied by the booming demand for pilots. Where will you go? Another Coke bottling plant in the Mainland? Enjoy!

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MC, you obviously have a very shallow and meaningless life. You desperately attempt to milk every negative issue affecting the pilots, demonstrating a smug joy at every turn. In truth, your very substance as an individual has been corrupted and bought by the modern day corporate equivalent of a well known political party in 1930's Germany. Something to be proud of no doubt. While you desperately click away at your keyboard attempting to justify the unjustifiable, the real demolition of you and your kind is well underway. On Monday I flew with three pilots. Two have already interviewed, one already accepted and awaiting a course date, the other awaiting almost a certain job offer. That in and of itself would be damaging enough to CX. The real 'nail in coffin' info was that both of them knew a dozen or more close colleagues who were already deep into the same process. One of them was interviewing the same day as a further 4 CX colleagues. So, please....keep pretending you and your cabal still have the upper hand. There is a song about you and your kind...'The King of Nothing'. While you ponder messing around with ever increasingly unobtainable aircrew, the ones you have (the only truly responsible employees, and the ones who have really created the reputation of the airline over the years) are fading away to other employers faster than you can keep count. It's too late. The middle 80% of aircrew in this airline have concluded that NOTHING you now falsely promise is worth staying for. Your lack of integrity, immorality and outright bullying and deceit has finally pushed most of us to the breaking point. There is no faith left, no trust left, no loyalty left. Congratulations...an epic accomplishment in the annals of airline management. In fact, we should thank you: you have enabled hundreds if not thousands of us the opportunity to reevaluate whats important in life, and it sure as hell isn't CX. I will soon be enjoying a comfortable retirement in France, enjoying sipping my coffee and being a small beacon of reason and contempt against the malignancy you represent. There will never be a day for CX management to rest, as you and the rest of your cockroaches will be chased by the light wherever you may scurry.
Last edited by Trafalgar; 6th December 2017 at 02:53.




