Originally Posted by Cathay Boy

Just realized in my years of taking CX I've never seen a Chinese pilot, but all the First Officers seem to be Chinese now. Is it just a matter of experience and time (they are not ready for the promotion yet), or is it CX policy to only hire foreign pilots?

I know this is the EVA Air policy when they first started flying (only hire foreign pilots) and that got them in trouble when they try to promote themselves as "Taiwan First" airline. Their reason was Taiwan doesn't have good Chinese pilots yet and they are retraining native Chinese pilots from the ground up (a shot at China Airlines who hires ex-Air Force pilots as their pilots)

Any of you flew with a CX Chinese pilot at the helm?