Originally Posted by Good Beer

Funny that your argument hinges on protecting the flying of a very small number of super senior pilots at the expense of every pilot at the current and future FDA's (MD11 HKG is coming regardless). The opportunity afforded to those who want go live in Germany for 4.9 years in my mind outweighs the 60+ year olds padding their FF numbers with Delta. BTW it has been repeatedly stated that Airbus SIBA would continue out of Paris with the 757 in CGN.

As far as requiring less pilots to staff an FDA, you are right it would. But seeing as how we are hiring, and should be for a while (unless Glenn Beck is right and the up-down-squeeze-in-out or whatever he talks about is around the corner) thats a mute point because if this is voted down, new hires will be going to HKG and they'll know full well what their getting into.......right.