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Cathay Pacific
Hong Kong | Mainline
Add ReviewSecond officer hiring 2025
2.0First Officer - Current employee
Recommended to other Pilots 
Positive business outlookApproval of managementPros
Good for training and acft transition
Cons
Advertising 250h total time required, but in reality that's just for their own cadet program. Outsiders with low time have little to none chances.. unless you're hong konger or Chinese.
Advice to management
Need to improve on feedback after interview
Advice to future employees
1000 hours and turbine gives you greater chancea
Pay and benefits
2.6Captain - Current employeeRecommended to other Pilots Positive business outlookApproval of managementPros
Pay & Benefits: were cut by approximately 50% permanently using Covid pandemic as an opportunity. Resulted in many experienced quitting, early retirement. Restructure with more Asian pilot demographics, “local” employment conditions with all aspect seen as “company policies” , constantly subject to change. (i.e. no agreed upon contract)
Cons
Unstable roster and pay - because of understaffed and ambitious recovery/expansion. New pay by the hour “productivity” roster resulted in a vastly varying pay per month - incentivizing pilot to “push the limit of fitness/heath” to sustain income.
Advice to management
Be honest, be respectful, stop patronizing and gaslighting its pilot community. Stop attacking conditions of service.
Advice to future employees
Stay away until new owner and new culture instigated. Company is probably for sale - record profit and minimum overhead. (Accounting perfection for balance sheet before sale).
There will be a lot of quick upgrades
2.6First Officer - Current employeeRecommended to other Pilots Positive business outlookApproval of managementPros
Once COVID restrictions finish there will be a lot of quick upgrades
Cons
Locked in your rooms for months at a time during COVID. HK quarantine so no travel. Not a career airline. Cannot afford to keep a family in Hong Kong on the new package.
Advice to management
Base your crew. Need to reinstate retention conditions.
Advice to future employees
Enjoy the shiny jets but keep your resume handy.
Cathay Dragon
3.6Captain - Former employeeRecommended to other Pilots Positive business outlookApproval of managementPros
fleet, COS, hollidays
Cons
management, rostering practice, unfairness
Advice to management
resign
Advice to future employees
won't happen, the airline ceased operation
