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COS18 Poll: Sign or be Terminated

Old 27th Oct 2020, 15:52
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COS18 Poll: Sign or be Terminated

COS18 Poll

Since the US Elections are days away it gave me the idea to share this poll. I may or may not have made it myself.

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Old 27th Oct 2020, 16:38
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Have to agree with STW on this one. The long storied history of CX as the per-eminent place to be for a career as a pilot is officially over in just a few hours. By signing, you are effectively "volunteering" to accept the new COS. There will be no going back from that point, and any value in the career will be gone for good. A very sad day indeed.

ok, just saw STW deleted his post, which said regarding the poll..."why bother, everyone will sign". Hence my comments.
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Old 27th Oct 2020, 23:21
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Pointless. What people say and do on a anonymous forum (and poll) is completely irrelevant. Today is indeed a very sad day. The final push to rid HKG of gweilos.
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Old 27th Oct 2020, 23:46
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I think that is going to be Cathays problem, HKG, well CX, will be rid of gweilos. Give it two years and they will be upping the COS to try to retain pilots, problem will be everyone will remember, and no one will accept the mediocre increase they propose as they know they can't trust any of it. CX is going to be just another lion air, air asia, airline overrun, pulling CBs and turning off flight computers Asian airline. I have mixed feelings, I want them to reap what they have sown, but I feel bad for those who will suffer because of it.

FYI, saying it will be CXs problem being rid of gweilos is not about race, there are many, many HKG guys I have flown with who are far superior to some of the expats, they are in the same **** situation but will probably stay as it is their home. Fast recruitment, fast promotion, inexperience being forced into roles they are not ready for, it would be the same the world over. This will come back to haunt CX.
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Old 28th Oct 2020, 06:44
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Why get terminated when you can resign?
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Old 28th Oct 2020, 07:35
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Originally Posted by SloppyJoe
CX is going to be just another lion air, air asia, airline overrun, pulling CBs and turning off flight computers Asian airline.
Gotta love expats who think their superiority over the locals is the only thing stopping those idiot Asian airline people from killing themselves.

Why, pilot error has never existed in western airlines, of course
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Old 28th Oct 2020, 07:38
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what is so great about this gweilos? hahahaha....
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Old 28th Oct 2020, 07:45
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Did you even read what I wrote? It will be the lack of crew, the standard of those joining with no other options, such as the French guy who applied but ended up killing lots at Air Asia (an expat). The forced rapid progression.

I guess you didn't and are just an angry racist looking for an issue.
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Old 28th Oct 2020, 08:02
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Well given time to command right now is well over 15+ years, "rapid progression" is hardly the problem in this company. If that's such a concern for you I guess never fly a regional airline in the US, the guy in the left seat might have been only there a 1 year instead.
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Old 28th Oct 2020, 09:24
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15 years at the moment, remove all the expats and that drops significantly. You could have people in command of wide bodies with barely 3000hrs of radio work experience. These things happen in South East Asia. Safety is compromised. Good old Swiss cheese.
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Old 28th Oct 2020, 10:09
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What are you talking about they will
just hire direct entry captains! (COs 18 allows it) You will never ever see a 3000 hour pilot in command of a cx jet, the insurance premiums are too much!
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Old 28th Oct 2020, 10:12
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Spread em wide guys and gals, the age of consent is upon us!
The Swire directors gin palace will be in full party mode tonight, funded by your permanent future earnings contribution.
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Old 28th Oct 2020, 11:04
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Sorry LLQNH, I wasn't looking to offend. Was just pointing out the previous posters distaste of all expat pilots. If his wish was to come true then the outcomes are not great.
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Old 28th Oct 2020, 11:22
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Aviation with Asian values
One more from the esteemed PM

you can't run an airline with out risk
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Old 28th Oct 2020, 12:27
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LLLQNH

That's not actually the case. KA had several and CX in the late 80s had a very low time ex lightning (v talented)chap.
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Old 28th Oct 2020, 13:10
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Airlines around the world put low time local pilots in the left seat, cx is no different.
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Old 28th Oct 2020, 14:38
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Poetic Justice? For years several self righteous keyboard warriors here never missed an opportunity to mock or berate those joining a lower CoS, while they themselves were too scared to do anything to protect their own CoS during a long period when we had the upper hand.

Now they're tripping over themselves to quickly sign over onto a CoS that will seal their fate for good come round 2. I am LMAO!!!!!
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Round 1: 05Nov20, commence termination of those pilots that refused to help out CX.

Round 2: 06Nov20, Conduct bases review and arrive at predetermined finding that all will be closed and pilots will return to the prevailing COS18 in HK. This will “help” to fill in those pilots that had to be terminated, avoiding any rehire of tainted exCX/KA pilots.

Round 3: 01Jan21 conduct review/update of forward bookings and recovery rate of the industry. Admit that as forecast the demand will only be 25% of normal for 2021. Come to the already decided conclusion that 777 pilots are in excess and terminate half of them without that pesky legacy LIFO contract in place.

Round 4: 01Apr21 finally get the HKCAD approval to do MFF A350/321neo and A330/320 and cross train all Airbus pilots. This will aid in rostering exactly 46.66 hrs/mth for the foreseeable future, thus avoiding any productivity pay.

Round 5..........
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Old 28th Oct 2020, 23:22
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Sadly, that's probably going to be pretty accurate.
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Old 28th Oct 2020, 23:32
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MFF 350/321? Why not 350/330 and 320 family ?
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