Why more expats pilots needed in Asia

[boxjockey]

Air Nippon. Yeah. Last I saw of them they were crossing the runway I was about to land on in ORD. Luckily I hit the TOGA instead of pulling the fire handles. Those darn confusing airplanes!

Yeah, not exactly sure Air Nippon is the same as ANA, but I guess could be. When I joined CX, the offer was much better than anything I could get in the states, and it still is. The problem is, they just degrade the conditions for new joiners periodically to see if they can still make recruiting targets. Apparently now they can't anymore, as we are tremendously short, and have 15 more wide-body jets coming in the next year. I got a call from Crew Control about an hour ago for a JKT turnaround tomorrow on my day off. It went to voicemail. I'm in overtime every single month. Soon the wheels will stop turning on those pretty new airplanes, and things will change.

box

 

[atpcliff]

BJ: Thanx for your info on Cathay. We here in the US have not heard too much about the CP situation lately.

Have a friend who was in the pool for FO. They drained the pool and stopped FO hiring-he went back for a SO interview, but last I heard did not take the position...probably he would go back as DEFO with the better conditions of that position.

cliff
HNL
PS-LUV! HKG. It is my favourite destination.