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Old Sep 8, 2024 | 1:23 pm
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MNL/CEB bound from HKG

Originally Posted by Carfield
CX is pretty aggressive with overseas hiring.

I was in a Bangkok flight a couple weeks ago and there were plenty of Thai speaking crews. I even noticed a few of them ending their trips in Bangkok with a few new ones joining from Bangkok. They are also hiring some South Asian F/As as there are plenty demand for Indian F/As on routes to and from India. However, they pretty work all the flights. I believe that CX makes a promise for fluent mandarin speaking crews on Mainland Chinese routes, but you can easily find a Korean speaking or Thai speaking crews on those flights too.

London has a base and those crews speak a wide range of Asian languages too.

Carfield
spot on there and if MNL/CEB bound from HKG it's a Filipino crew alongside Hong kongers Taiwanese South Koreans Japanese and Mainland China crews. MNL is 6x daily
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