Originally Posted by
christep
I understand that the decision was driven to some extent by a tightening of Immigration rules in Hong Kong, making it hard for CX to justify recruiting non-HK Chinese and basing them in HK, although for some reason they don't seem to have the same problem with pilots. Maybe we should be writing to the Immigration Department as well as CX?
Wasn't this just a reaction to the SARS induced recession? IME HK has started to loosen up on immigration again in the last year since the economy is booming. (For example they are allowing people on dependant visas to seek employment again - a right which was removed during the post SARS recession).