Also interesting to point out is that the BNE ATR captains who had their base closed weren’t forced to CBR o SYD but were given firm commuting rights, again thanks to the AFAP.
Attributing that to the AFAP is drawing a pretty long bow. Confirmed commuting rights within the group came as a result of the original 777 EBA that morphed into the WB EBA. Prior to the original LH EBA, nobody in Virgin had any commuting rights at all. The LH EBA introduced them in the form of "own way travel" the WB enshrined them. The original "own way travel" was driven wholly by VIPA. Sure the AFAP supported it, but not for one minute was it their idea or their argument. All commuting rights within the Virgin Group stem from that win by the 777 pilots. To be fair to the Feds, they had equal input to the commuting rights won in the WB EBA, but again, that was a 100% VIPA proposal when the EBA was still 777 only and all pilots were Sydney based. To say otherwise is reinventing history.