The point is that this NEW airline is neither LH or DHL. It is a new entity. Therefore the point of 2 German Owners=German Company=German Pilots (LH exclusive right apparently
) is moot. Protectionism in its worst form. LH pilots are neither more nor less entitled to these jobs than any other appropriately qualified pilot with the right to live and work in the EU.
This airline does not represent an erosion in LH T&Cs, or in DHLs. They set the rate, and if it is not acceptable to LH pilots, then they are welcome to sling their proverbial hooks and look elsewhere. The view that it operating LH routes also does not really hold either, as mon-fri the routes flown are entirely DHLs - so by my reckoning, the pilot body should be 5/7 DHL pilots, whose expertise in this sector has been entirely shunned for German cronyism.