It is rumored that Hong Kong airport employees have shortages in some aviation priorit

(Hong Kong French Xindian) Hong Kong Airlines industry revealed that due to the shortage of airport employees, some airlines have prioritized airport ground service, resulting in foreign airlines from increasing flights.

Agence France -Presse on Wednesday (January 18) quoted five airline executives that about 20 airlines in Asia are currently unable to restart or increase flights to Hong Kong.

With the restart of the Hong Kong aviation industry last month, the airport began to hire more employees to keep up with the growth of flight demand.

However, Li Yongfu, chairman of the Ground Volunteer Workers of Hong Kong Airport, said that the basic monthly salary of Diqin Company is HK $ 13,000 to HK $ 14,000 (S $ 2193 to 2362). There is no competitiveness in the market, so attracting and training newcomersThe speed does not meet expectations.

A former ground personnel interviewed that his department currently has 200 employees, 80%less than 1,000 before the epidemic, and employees must work for a long time to make up for the shortage, but the salary is still cut to the epidemic level.

The above -mentioned five executives also revealed that these ground -work companies will give priority to their services to parent companies or mainland airlines with close or direct business, resulting in some foreign airlines' unable to use ground service because they are ranked later.

A executive revealed that Hong Kong Airlines, Hong Kong Express and other Hong Kong companies, as well as Chinese airlines including Tianjin Airlines, Western Airlines and Capital Airlines, can increase flights recently."From when did Hong Kong become a place that can only do business only?"

The land service of the Hong Kong Airport is controlled by the three companies of Hong Kong Airport Service, Xinxiang (Hong Kong), and Iehemid Airlines Services.It is reported that Hong Kong Airport Services is a subsidiary of Cathay Pacific of Hong Kong. Xinxiang (Hong Kong) is a joint venture between Hong Kong Airlines and Xinxiang Group. Hihe Airlines Services is a joint venture between China Airlines Group and the UK.

In addition, because Cathay Pacific has not agreed to the Cathay Pacific Server employees' requirements for increasing people and improved salary, the trade union decided to launch a chapter work on Thursday (19th), requiring employees to work without overtime or work on rest days.Express to the company.