Cathay Pacific Asia Miles - CX crews demand more rest time

CATHAY CREW DEMAND MORE FLIGHTS, LONGER REST PERIODS
Cathay Pacific flight attendants yesterday demanded the Hong Kong-based airline returns its number of flights to pre-SARS levels in a bid to get more rest on long-haul services.

A spokeswoman for the airline's Flight Attendants' Union said its 3,700 members were also demanding crew numbers be returned to what they were before severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) forced the reductions from April.

It said that under current conditions, Cathay crew members had to fly to Sydney and back in 46 hours and 45 minutes, to London and back in 61 hours 20 minutes, and to San Francisco and back in 52 hours 15 minutes.

These timings include flying time in both directions and rest time at the destination, it said.

'With the reduced lay-over time, the cabin crew are finding it extremely tough to work on flights that are largely full nowadays and very often with insufficient manpower, due to the many crew who are still on unpaid leave,' the union said.

According to CX they will be roastered more rest time while back in HKG but it is a fact that the crew memebr will lose some of their out port allowence as out port layover has been reduced.

CX wants to save money, even though the crew memebrs agree to take the Special Leave Scheme(on week no pay leave on every month from June for 4 months, now been reduced to 3 months)CX finds out that they can save more by reducing the layover pattern within the HKG CAD requirement, and the crew don't want to give up their out-port allowence, in some way can make up for what they have lost with their monthly pay check. Anyway according to my CX crew friend their SLS which be ended by Aug and Sep HOPEFULLY all patterns will be back to pre-SARS level. And thier union is worried that CX will carry on the cost cutting meaures regarding the layover pattern will carry on which their total income will be affected.

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by agmhkg:
CX wants to save money, even though the crew memebrs agree to take the Special Leave Scheme(on week no pay leave on every month from June for 4 months, now been reduced to 3 months).</font>

I think you'll find that the SLS was in terms of weeks, not months. That is, staff are on unpaid leave for 3 weeks.



[This message has been edited by B-HXB (edited 08-12-2003).]

yes and that is what I'm talking about, a CX staff can apply the whole 3 weeks SLS in one month or spread them out into 3 months, depends on the operational requirement right? Sorry if it is my standard of English so bad that it makes any confusion.

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by agmhkg:
yes and that is what I'm talking about, a CX staff can apply the whole 3 weeks SLS in one month or spread them out into 3 months, depends on the operational requirement right? Sorry if it is my standard of English so bad that it makes any confusion.</font>

Ah, sorry, misread your original post. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif