Cathay - fear culture = safety culture?

[spannersatcx]

You'll have to forgive me but what does

Full written submissions in about six weeks

mean?

[OneWorld22]

Well speaking as an L1011 jockey for a number of years, I can recall frequent occassions of surges while reversing. No big deal, but a pain in the ass for maintennace who would have to do some checks, but always there was nothing to worry about. Just a quirk I guess. And flying the L1011 we also had a few Hot starts along the way!

I don't like seeing maintenance people being slagged off either way like this, you guys do a great job and with the crews are the most important cog in the wheel.

The Moscow incident sounds like a freak incident. They happen, name me one major airline who has never experienced "feak" engineering incidents before in their lifetime. Almost always they end safely and it was the case in this incident. The aircraft landed safely, no huge problem.

spannersatcx has been on this forum a long time and I always enjoy reading his posts. I have no doubt he is a quality engineer and if he is the typical spanner at CX then their maintenance must be pretty good indeed!

[geldap]

Full written submissions means that the employment tribunal will write a report as to why they found I was unfairly dismissed and why there was a breach of contract. They will then send it to me. By the way if you have not yet signed the new contract then don't as you will be signing away your right to a full leave entitlement as CX pro rated down which is not allowed under that contract of employment.

[spannersatcx]

geldap, check your pm's please.

[Plastique]

Geldap
I think your current employer may be wanting to talk to you about providing internal documents (from your current employer) to the press.

[geldap]

Plastique - to stop your rumours or scare mongering I will say that I discussed at length with my current employer my court case with CX and had their full support. I have not or do not intend to reveal any documents to the press on this matter. CX make a good job of inciting bad press without me . Any documents involving my current employer were innocuous and were in the bundle for an employment tribunal, no more than that. There was a press clamouring for details about this case, however this was due to the fact that CX has had a series of incidents of late and was not incited by me. I have been contacted by several members of the media over the last few weeks and always politely declined to comment as I do not want the intrusion into my and my families lives. I hope that you can respect this and stop the gossip which people like yourself perpetuate.

This has been a large part of my life for 3 years now. I intend to move on, if people like you will allow this, having had my day (or week as the case may be) in court, and having had many of the questions I had answered by the tribunal.

[HKPAX]

I think you will find that HK Labour Tribunal judgements are public documents. They can't be "leaked" to the press because they can get hold of them if they want. As a passenger I feel rather uneasy about the way CX has handled itself over the last few years, "immature" being a mild form of criticism applicable to a couple of their senior management. Yes they are a great airline but why put this at risk by f*** ar**** about?

HKPAX