Here's the solution - fire the CX Aussie / Kiwi pilots. Replace them with fresh KAL pilots and Biman Bangladeath Co-Pilots. Hire Olympic Airways ground crew and re-engineer management with PAL staff. Throw in some cheery ex-Aeroflot attendants and I think you will have the perfect cost effective, brisk airline that management gurus dictate will correlate with their flow charts.

Oh what the heck - just fly Air Creebec!

Something to think about....

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[This message has been edited by Celestar340 (edited 06-06-99).]

Trying again with the URL link:
http://www.SCMP.COM/news/template/te...PrevMFS=1912//

Ok...I'm doing something wrong but I don't know what!

[This message has been edited by Celestar340 (edited 06-06-99).]

Yechhh!!!! Way too long. Try this instead:

www.SCMP.COM/news/template/HK-Template.idc?artid=19990605021955021&top=hk&templa te=Default.htx&maxfieldsize=2961

Regards,

Ken Hamer


[This message has been edited by KenHamer (edited 06-06-99).]

The sick out continues- more cancelled flights!

I am getting sick of reading pilots who claim that the threat of layoffs are causing undue stress that they are unfit to fly. This sort of accusations seriously undermines the credibilities of the pilots themselves. So in other words, flying an aircraft is not stressful? One senior pilot went as far as claiming in the South China Morning Post this morning that if he slipped up over stress while piloting a plane, it would cost over 400 lives.

So when this is all over, should one feel safe to board a Cathay Pacific flight knowing full well that 'other' events might trigger certain miscalculations...? What is not stressful? Pilot going through divorce, pilot deciding which car to buy next, pilot deciding over the fish or chicken meal from First Class galley.

The ones suffering most are certainly not the management OR the pilots but us lowly passengers who have to resort to charter carriers to take us around. The hard-currency full fare Business and First class passenger can certainly be endorsed over to another carrier but those who are stuck with a 'special' seat sale ticket have to take whatever Cathay has chartered. Certain flights have even been chartered to be carried by World Airways. Now is that bummer or what?

according to the latest news, the pay dispute is finally resolved...the deal for A-scale aircrew is just the same as what Cathay suggested before, but now somehow the pilots agree to it and they no longer feel the excessive pressure and sickness...

Unbelievable! CX management had just reiterated that tomorrow is it or you are all out! Perhaps it caused them to cave rather than give up that good salary and perks!

Cathay Pacific, pilots reach an agreement
June 10, 1999
Web posted at: 10:39 a.m. EDT (1439 GMT)

HONG KONG (AP) -- Cathay Pacific Airways and its pilots reached a deal Thursday that will cut the cockpit crew's pay in exchange for stock options -- less than 24 hours before the company was threatening to fire its pilots in the dispute that grounded hundreds of flights..

For full article, see:
http://www.cnn.com/TRAVEL/NEWS/9906/....ap/index.html