I’ll have to ask if the captain on my Lufthansa flight tomorrow to HKG is typhoon certified.

He / She will have been trained to CX standard which is such a high standard!

Can put typhoon rating on resume ? Better if in license to show recruitment team

Lol, ok now you guys are making me laugh, touche.

I flew wide bodies for years in and out of Hong Kong. I was unaware I meant to be Typhoon Certified to do this. How do you get certified? 😊

Perhaps there should also be a sub-category on your Typhoon Rating,
I suggest T1, T3, T8, T9 and T10 sub-classes to the vaunted rating!
ICAO will no doubt setup a working and feasibility group to consult equatorial regulatory authorities worldwide…….

The rating will specify the typhoon name and severity you got your rating in, and if the wind came over the hills or not.

they/them

Weary traveller, could I DM you about this?

It maybe the best time to apply CX cadet program due to the pilot shortage. Quotas of program may increase to solve the shortage.

Zero pilot shortage, never has been and never will be.

If by pilots you mean inexperienced cadets, absolutely.

If instead you mean aircrew experienced enough to occupy a RHS or LHS, au contraire, we’re blatantly in the middle of one now (mostly self-induced).

Indeed.
Numbers ? We are good and getting better.
Experience/quality, very different story.
The huge transfusion from the 74 to other fleets says it all.

Or just ask one of the dozens of guys who recently came back why.

I wish they would come back in genuine numbers because the network and cancellations making retiree travel lousy.

Contract out your freighter operation so you can expand.

sure… because other (747) freighter aren’t busy at all and have all the pilots/planes available…

Maybe you can solve the Russo Ukranian war, stop the houthi’s, solve out the rest of the middle east and make it rain in Panama. Thereafter there might be some availability.

OK Mister Angry then there is a genuine pilot shortage crippling business opportunities at CX.

I really don’t know why sone folks on here seem to take the side of a clumsy management. A few pilot coming back isn’t alleviating the shortage STW.

Possibly. But apparently they prefer to expand slower and keeping the costs low. They have all the data,we don't. Some guy sitting in front of his Excel told a guy a floor up number in column A is bigger than B...

That’s pretty much it. They would rather a smaller airline but maintain an absolute chokehold on costs.

As to asking the dozens of re-hires about why they’re back, it’s indeed quite illuminating. But in the context of expanding to at least our former size, it might also be instructive to hear from the hundreds who aren’t coming back…

Any reason to come back no longer exists under the current COS.