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Apr 9, 2020, 2:36 am

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ernestnywang

Join Date: Sep 2005

Location: TPE / HSZ

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Originally Posted by hikouki

At this day and age, what is the main benefit to CX of having overseas-based crews? I am pretty sure in the old days it was pretty common as CX hired FAs from 10 or 12 nations? I noticed on my flights that the Philippine, Thai and Singaporean crews were usually pursers and up, but none were junior crew. Does CX still hire foreign crews from around Asia?

I believe the HK base has some non-HKers (e. g., Taiwanese), so there are more nationalities than crew bases.

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