50% pay cuts
 

Crew should stop flights until mgmt take 50% indefinite paycuts immediately to realign with industry norms.

Good luck with that.

Alternative Employment
 

Watch closely from 21:16 onward :ok:

#CXit

Tucker Carlson is the devil

Pilot shortages
 

Ad hominem attacks simply elucidate your low level position in the hierarchy of CX and Hong Kong professionals.. You sir are nugatory :sad:

He really is though.

One of the most profound and disturbing pieces of journalism i've ever seen. Perhaps you should take the time to watch it STW.

Tucker Carlson is a far right wing advocat of everything you can spin against the political opponent. The purpose is to daily fuel hatred and anger against the political opponent, not to solve problems or lead to progress.

The only useful thing in the story is that the US has a pilot shortage.

The rest is B.S. Has nothing to do with a vaccine mandate, but T.C.'s existence is to put such spins on every story.

The US has a pilot shortage because:
- less military pilots
- thousands of early retirements in wake of the covid travel bump, heavily supported by the companies at the time, which now seem to regret
- waaaaaaaaay to many small aircraft in the market: as far as I know, ~50% of all US majors movements a day are flown by regional jets. This has a long time history of being cheaper when the regionals had awful work conditions. Now this has changed. So the airlines need to correct their own strategic planning of the last 15 years and use bigger planes with a bit less dense network.

No need to scandalise, just remind aviation management to do their job: organise your business so that it works.

It's about Aviation Jobs...
 

Morons..
That video has valuable insight into what "may" help some ex CX / KA and other pilots have a better future.. I indicated in my post to start the video at the relevant time... All the rest of you finding fault/hate in the delivery person; well, you stay in Hong Kong and suffer for the rest of your lives as it's indicated that's where you belong.. Suffering with your CNN attached brains..

CX massive pay and benefit increases coming soon :D:D:D

bloomberg

Haven't you heard? CX is recruiting 800 fresh pilots in the next 3 years, locally. Problem solved!
Good luck with that...

Interview panel: Welcome. So tell us, why do you want to be a CX pilot?

Candidate: My friend tells me it’s a good job. All you do is babysit the autopilot, and get paid heaps of money.

Interview panel: Thank you for your time. Don’t call us, we will call you :rolleyes:

Two weeks later in the newspaper: CX A340-300 tail strike in AKL, then continued to HKG. At the controls, 2 local cadets.

Good luck with that indeed!

I was never with CX and will never be. Not consuming CNN either. Was merely answering to people who think that T.C. is "One of the most profound and disturbing pieces of journalism" or "He really is though."

And by the way, I agree with your notion that the US pilot situation is a good thing, for pilots in HKG and also worldwide.

On a side note, since you seem so springloaded: introspect and ask yourself, where your anger is coming from.

Way too many people way tooo angry nowadays thanks to social media BS and guys like T.C. on Fox. Not better on the far left wing side of politics either. Where has just normality and reason gone? And yes, China is China, was never normal and reasonable by western standards, and will never be. No need to be angry about it either. Just go home, as soon as a reasonable opportunity exists.

This is one of the more disappointing post from you CL. Goes to show the lens you carry when you go to work.

We don’t talk about the 3 hours return flight with ongoing cargo fire warning with at least two other nearest suitable (Expat pilots), 747 goaround in HK which triggered a hard GPWS because they all thought the AP was in but in fact it was just flying in the air aimlessly on its own (Expat pilots), or the 747 that almost crashed into a terminal building in JFK because they tried to do an autoland on an offset localiser ILS in fog (Expat pilots), BECAUSE WE SHOULDN’T. Mistakes happens and are made by humans and it is fortunate we get to learn from them from the outside looking in. Using one example to paint your kind of picture especially when there are hundreds of local captains flying at CX is just a disgusting act.

Of course there will be problems at Cathay with the drain of experience, but as it stands there are still plenty of experienced people around to set a good foundation for the future. If hiring cadets on masses is the future, doesn’t those who are still here have a responsibility to give it the best chance there is?

Racism and arrogance usually go hand in hand.

STW I fully agree
Those days are long gone and this for the best.
- but weren't they great while they lasted !

It is odd why people hate cadets so much. Is it their flying ability? Can't be, then blame the instructor for passing them. If it's their attitude then 100% we can all hate them together, but I'm sure it's not, as most are really nice chaps. There are always wankers in any company, not just cadets, so we can rule that out. The only last variable is the notion they got a job easier than I did, to me here lies the problem <-- the problem isn't with the cadet, it's with the person with the problem. If Curry Lamb thinks all cadets are useless, then please publish your real name and aviation career as well as your personal life history so we can all find some disaster he/she may have done. Everybody has stuffed up, even the sky gods who have been captains for 20 years and David Beckham.

I'm 99.99% sure that when you had just completed your licence and someone offered you a cadet course, you would take it, why not you'd be daft if you didn't! Same as a woman choosing a wealthy man so she doesn't have to work, whilst all she does is drink coffee and walk the kid, who wouldn't want an easier life?

I'm thinking Curry has either lost his/her job, been fired or retrenched, maybe even lost a half decent relationship, HK and her previous life is toxic now and it is not the utopia she once dreamed of. Maybe deep down she feels a failure and life is falling apart. Never fear Curry, the solution is near! Marry a wealthy man and drink coffee and walk the kid, remember to look good and have the odd fling on the side, maybe open a business selling cookies or an aviation recruitment company to hire cadets!

Either way, life is pointless just enjoy the ride. Curry I'm sure you are somewhat beautiful inside but please, just post jokes and more relevant funny topics or technical stuff.

PS: If a cadet passes a flight test, interview or an exam then they are the same as you.

So does Asian Culture and a steep Cockpit Hierarchy, that have led to a number of high profile prangs.

My interview scenario has nothing to do with the FLYING ABILITY of local pilots, nor racism, you can teach a monkey to fly for all I care.

But, there are very good reasons why mostly (Asian Airlines) including CXit has been hiring expats, again not for their (sic) exceptional flying skills :rolleyes: but rather to flatten hierarchy in the cockpit (sorry ladies, fright deck) and thereby eliminating all the loss of face BS, and saving a few airframes and lives:

https://www.claimsjournal.com/news/w.../16/241682.htm

https://www.cnn.com/2010/BUSINESS/06...ple/index.html

Curry, just answer this:

1) Have you or did you lose / leave your job in Hong Kong

CL, you are digging yourself deeper in the hole.

You claim that the Asian culture of CADETS is inferior to pilots with a Western culture. That is textbook racism.

If CRM as practised in Asia is inferior is an entire different discussion.

Joined in the late 80's, just as the cadet scheme was implemented. Many of them are long time friends at this point. They have unfailingly been professional and pleasant. The only real difference is our cultural experiences. I don't care where you come from, just be professional and make an effort to get along. They score highly on both counts. The real enemy wear suits and hate pilots. Don't descend to a place where pilots hate pilots.