DUPLICITY
 

SCMP 6 June

Cathay Pacific CEO Rupert Hogg vows to close gender gap as flight director?s departure means no women on Hong Kong airline?s top deck | South China Morning Post

The Hogman vows to close the "gender gap" as the only "senior" woman at CX departs ??? What?
Let me get this straight, Hogg, The CEO of Cathay Pacific (a Swire Prince) and his Swire counterparts REMOVED (article said she's leaving) Ms. Thompson from her "Senior" position and now he's bemoaning the fact that there are no women in senior positions ??? If that's the case, he (the CEO) should have left her where she was and not "removed" her.
Can I get a reality check here?
The Swire Company, as they are so politically correct these days, control 100% of who they hire and in particular the gender ratio of their Swire Prince & Princesses when they are inducted as they pop out of Cambridge - Oxford etc. That said, it is Mr. Hogg and his Swire ilk who are wholly responsible for this situation, absolutely nobody else. He should wear this problem like he actually is a "Senior Leader", and own up to the issue Swires are responsible for but no, he will deflect it as usual. Pathetic.
BTW, when companies start remodelling themselves looking for equality of outcome (on any level however particularly on the gender of their management), it's time to run for the doors.
A good corporate thought process "should" be, I want the best, most experienced and qualified person for the task and their sex should be completely irrelevant. (I completely understand this last sentence IS NOT in the CX management thought process - Dilbert is more akin to how it works under the CX umbrella)
#CXit
My own thoughts Mr. Hogg, pay more attention to what you are supposed to be doing and perhaps we won't loose another 5 or 6 BILLION USD in Fuel Hedging and/or lost criminal lawsuit's. (dare I mention the costly "renewable fuel" PR farce ? )

The bets on the fuel couldn't have been any looser.
As long as somebody is capable and competent then there should be no problem whatever sex that person may be. For whatever reason(s), they had to remove her.

It's being fixed, at lower levels in the company at least. Most of the record number of pilot resignations under RH and AT's watch would be male.

Old quote: "A Swire Prince is like a lighthouse in the desert. Incredibly bright but of no F@#$ing use to anyone"

Perhaps the new Chief Wizard: Merlin, can pull something out of his "wizard's sleeve" and get these Lighthouses doing something that works.

I like equality of opportunity for the females, males and the 49 other genders, but how is this helping us become profitable again?
However important, more than closing the gender gap, we should be worried about how we are going to succeed.
I hope Hogg has his eye on the right ball.

However important, more than closing the gender gap, we should be worried about how we are going to succeed.
I hope Hogg has his eye on the right ball.[/QUOTE]

Nah, Biofuels (renewable?) + the Weekly Update say it all. Virtue signalling & the "We Are Green" garbage tell the complete story.

#CXit

The new GMA comes from 'procurement' background. So crew can expect to be treated more than ever as resource/ widgets/production units.

That can't be any worse than being a "cost centre code", can it ????

Big thread drift warning;

And that children is why you don't post on yammer:ugh:

Affectionately known as Yammercide

what happened/what will happen to said individual

Another Duplicitous Statement
 

I see from the latest DFO newsletter that the (EX) Paris based pilots "have finally reached a settlement" in regard to their eviction from the base 6 years ago ???

I typed all this into my Dick Tracey decoding machine to find out what it really means.

" The company after 6 years of telling the displaced crew to pi** off and spending $$$$$$$$$ on HK and European lawyers finally buckled". This, more than likely, following their lawyers advice "pay up, you're going to lose and you will get hosed in a very big way".
In other words, they were going to lose another law suit caused entirely by another incompetent DFO/DirPPL combination.

Once again, another group of "Leaders" screws up, collects their fat bonuses and leaves behind an expensive mess for the next suckers to clean up and pay for.

I can't even remember which incompetent DFO was responsible for this..

TIME TO WIN :D

My FO on Sunday...showing me his email from Qantas congratulating him on being hired. And so it goes....

All part of the master plan.

"I see you've reduced operating costs by over 10 percent, Ms. Blonde. Well done ! We've been trying to do that for years. If you don't mind my asking, how did you do it ?"

"Easy you silly goose -- I just went out and fired a bunch of those expensive pilots."

"Well, if you got rid of the pilots, who's going to fly the airplanes ?"

"Airplanes ?"

The Cost
 

Had a walk through the mail room after my last flight. 249 "R"s on mail boxes !!
It's only the first week of July........

I wonder if Swire even knows that the head of Qantas pilot recruitment was until a couple of months ago the cx pilot recruitment manager. What a joke this piece of Swire conglomerate has become, I'm loathed to call it an airline.

Hope she's fast tracking cx applications, good luck so those lucky to be leaving this sinking ship.

Arrrrr's
 

249, count em yourself.. I think retirement and resignation all get same R..

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Isn't it obvious though. Management would rather downsize the airline before they concede. The 330s will go, 777s are being returned, there won't be a crewing crisis.

Perfectly said. The old tried and always failed colonial attitude and standard practice. Incompetence being the most core characteristic of the management teams and individuals running this joint, at all levels. Back to the original subject, they treat us all like sh!t. Even if they now somehow treat us all equally, it still leaves a lot to be desired. People are not commodities. They're the heart of the organization, whether it's a commercial or military organization. This lesson has been learned the hard way periodically in human history since the ancient times and yet these geniuses running this organization insist on learning lessons the hard way, the stupid way, from their own mistakes and they fail at even that low level of learning.

I sat thru 45 minutes of RH giving his pep talk speech during fleet forum recently. For 45 minutes of talking (...and at times whispering) he talked all about the strategic and tactical challenges, competition, fleet deployments and market forces and pressures etc. basically how we face challenges in business terms. The man never once used the word People, never mind Our People. Never once said how unless we all stand behind the company's efforts, we won't succeed. Like our help or good will doesn't matter or is just assumed. Not even a fake display of people skills or leadership charisma. That's how out of touch and clueless of a leaders we have here, top to bottom. Exceptions are too few and far in between. Without our good will and effort, nothing they attempt will work. This basic fact is badly lost of them. They have no idea how high the level of bad will is among the employees and how much money it's costing the company every single day.

Rumours circulating that a matter of months left before there aren't enough STCs to continue with normal operations, CAD to (finally) intervene??

Unfortunately the CAD are civil servants with no clue what to do, they'll simply ask cx and take their recommendations.

The HKCAD is not a real regulatory agency. Their reputation is well established at rock bottom in this regard. Good luck to anyone thinking otherwise.