Originally Posted by
christep
And yet by now presumably at least 600 CX pilots earn more than HK$250,000 per month, which is really a huge amount of money by any reasonable standard (it is about 16 times the median income and 10 times the median household income).
It is a lot, but you must look at the context. It's 20% of the total pilot group and most of those are long term employees with huge experience. I would (and do) pay a premium to fly CX because of that experience over other airlines in the region.
The drive to cut costs is far more worrying to me, the quality of pilots joining has dropped significantly in recent years.