Hong Kong''s Cathay Pacific Group has given its clearest hint yet of job losses among pilots as part of its COVID-19 "structural change" review, ahead of crunch talks in around two weeks, a media report said Monday. Alex McGowan, the general manager of aircrew, said in a memo to the company's 4,100 cockpit crew that the carrier's priority "is to preserve pilots'' jobs where we can", the SCMP reported. Cathay has said upcoming discussions with the Hong Kong Aircrew Officers Association (HKAOA), representing unionised pilots, would involve "challenging conversations". "We had hoped that by now we would have met with the HKAOA to begin to work through the implications of the crisis for our Hong Kong-based pilots," McGowan said in the memo. "These will be challenging conversations and we want to ensure we don''t undertake them until we have more clarity. I appreciate the current lack of detail allows rumour and speculation to grow and I''m very sorry for this."<br/>