It takes more than two apartment towers to house 10,000 men. And here I thought there was a housing shortage generally in Hong Kong? How many pilots does CX have now? As hsi.chang has noted, the Taiwanese people will sleep sounder now knowing the entire Chinese air force has been contracted out to fly for CX! Is there a secret training centre in the heart of Mongolia, equipped with dozens of Airbus and Boeing flight simulators, where these pilots are being secretly trained? I am less concerned about the ethnicity of these, or any other, pilots than I would be with their experience flying commercial aircraft. I say this from the standpoint of both pure age, not to mention hours on specific aircraft as co-pilots, let alone as pilots.

I dare say, if CX dismissed all their current pilots and replaced them with recent trainees, public and customer confidence in the airline would plummet, and its balance sheet would turn redder than the Chinese flag! Even the PRC can recognize these consequences.

But then again, who says anything one reads on the internet is true?