Troubles stirring again
Jul 31, 2001 | 3:20 am
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Troubles stirring again
According to various news sources this morning, the pilots of CX will begin taking actions again tomorrow. Rooster problems are the cause of today's strike. According to the pilots, they received the rooster on July 24 for the August schedule. There is usually a 15 days advance notice.
I guess it is wise not to fly CX between August 1 and August 8.
Carfield
I guess it is wise not to fly CX between August 1 and August 8.
Carfield
Jul 31, 2001 | 8:28 am
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Carfield, thanks for the heads up. I am continuing my UA-CX RTW on 9 Aug out of JFK heading east, and have to decide if I should take CX LHR-HKG (preferred), or UA LHR-DEL-HKG (or CX DEL-HKG). Don't you love those CX pilots...
Jul 31, 2001 | 7:48 pm
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THE ROOSTER
it was a new way of waking up CX pilots to make sure they get to the airport on time but just died in the Bird flu epidemic.
SCMP today
Cathay pilots plan to comply "under duress" with rostering arrangements to be imposed from today, despite overwhelmingly rejecting them.
Some 1,255 pilots - about 85 per cent of Cathay's air crew - completed union letters rejecting individual offers on rostering and overtime.
The Aircrew Officers' Association has warned that Cathay members are not obliged to work today - which the airline denies - because rosters were put out late.
The union's general secretary, John Findlay, said its current advice to members, to go to work, could change depending on management moves.
Cathay Pacific's director of corporate development, Tony Tyler, refused to say how many pilots had returned a company form on the offer other than to say it was "well into three figures", adding that the airline was "very satisfied" with how things were proceeding.
Cathay e-mailed pilots the evening before yesterday's deadline advising them to sign the union letter if they felt under pressure to do so.
Pilots who returned the union rejection letter would be treated as if they had not replied at all, Mr Tyler said.
This would mean they would be rostered differently from today and put on to a new overtime scheme from their next birthday.
The pilots argue rostering conditions form part of their contracts and cannot be unilaterally changed, while the company argues they are part of an operations manual that the airline can alter at will.
The union says the new rostering means some long flights will be staffed by three pilots instead of four and the types of flights requiring long recovery breaks will change.
it was a new way of waking up CX pilots to make sure they get to the airport on time but just died in the Bird flu epidemic.
SCMP today
Cathay pilots plan to comply "under duress" with rostering arrangements to be imposed from today, despite overwhelmingly rejecting them.
Some 1,255 pilots - about 85 per cent of Cathay's air crew - completed union letters rejecting individual offers on rostering and overtime.
The Aircrew Officers' Association has warned that Cathay members are not obliged to work today - which the airline denies - because rosters were put out late.
The union's general secretary, John Findlay, said its current advice to members, to go to work, could change depending on management moves.
Cathay Pacific's director of corporate development, Tony Tyler, refused to say how many pilots had returned a company form on the offer other than to say it was "well into three figures", adding that the airline was "very satisfied" with how things were proceeding.
Cathay e-mailed pilots the evening before yesterday's deadline advising them to sign the union letter if they felt under pressure to do so.
Pilots who returned the union rejection letter would be treated as if they had not replied at all, Mr Tyler said.
This would mean they would be rostered differently from today and put on to a new overtime scheme from their next birthday.
The pilots argue rostering conditions form part of their contracts and cannot be unilaterally changed, while the company argues they are part of an operations manual that the airline can alter at will.
The union says the new rostering means some long flights will be staffed by three pilots instead of four and the types of flights requiring long recovery breaks will change.