When will CX restart hiring DESO?
 

Does anyone have any idea whether Cathay will be recruiting DESO anytime soon, especially for expats?
I would like to hear the opinion from the inside.

No idea. I heard there's a big training backlog with SO's currently. And company biasing upgrades towards locals hoping they will hang around longer. Fairness not really a thing here. You won't win a raffle if you don't buy a ticket. We used to think of it as winning Lotto, now more like winning a meat tray.

more like a turd full of maggots

Rumour has it SO positions now are exclusively for locals, apparently it’s govt policy? Dunno how true?

They still haven’t rehired the SO expats they tossed away in 2020, so I doubt they’ll be looking for DESO’s anytime soon.

Can you tell me where you got that rumor from bro?

When Swire annihilated Dragonair, all of the pilots there lost their jobs. In response, HK Gov stopped issuing visas to expats as there were now qualified and very experienced people in HK who were unemployed. This extended to work visas not being renewed for some expat SOs who had been with CX for several years. There was mediation between gov and CX and the end result at this point in time is, SOs are hired locally as cadets and expats can only apply as DEFOs as that is where the airline has the skills shortage.

Unfortunately CX lost lots of its experienced FOs to the USA when McDonalds reopened its Trainee Manager program which offers better pay and conditions. Because they had experience working for clowns they were fast-tracked.

You forget our brothers and sisters in the North.
Apparently CX is now taking on Chinese Nationals for the icadet scheme.
Some thing that would have never happened back in the days.
Check out the new requirement.
Boom.

What could possibly go wrong with putting a local and a mainland Chinese in the same cockpit.

How stupid can you be.

No. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that. They can hire whoever they want however they want. It just tells you where the company is headed to, since we are touching on the topic of DESO.

Strange that when people come looking for work in our countries they are ‘immigrants’, but when we do the same we’re ‘expats’…

Won't be surprised if the mainland cadets start bribing their way through the ICAO english tests.. those guys can get creative when it comes to cheating

When will CX restart hiring DESO?

Sometime after they finish hiring as many former CX DEC as they can from the last job ad.

Based on the package offered, that might not be too long!

Rumor also has it that CX is pushing for single pilot operation. With ChatGPT/AI on trend, I think it's possible in not so near future.

you obv haven’t come face to face with the number of CAD approved ICAO English raters here whose numbers can be counted on one hand not including the thumb and fvvk you finger… one Rottweiler, one v sharp seen it all, and one company staffed by ex KA.
lotsa luck with the bribes

The now ex KA FO's company used to run a pretty good racket, had many of the HKA and UO guys going through there getting English levels well beyond their unintelligible speech.

ARHAHAHAHHA... Lovely... Lovely....

Was that the same company that gave several native English speakers level 5 becasue the non-native speaking person doing the test couldn't understand them properly?

Possibly the same outfit. I re-tested a New Zealand guy in HKG who had been given a 5 by some outfit there and he was obviously a 6 within ten seconds of talking to him.

I'm still not sure how old sexty sex is however :}

Heard the rumours of the FO trying this on people. I’m under the impression it was more of a threat though. He would lose his accreditation pretty quickly if it was real.