Originally Posted by
mohikan
This statement by Joyce is laying the ground for blaming the mainline pilots for the cancellation of 'Project Sunrise' . If you think how he used a confected fight with the Perth airport authorities over A330 to JNB and now B787 to Paris you will understand the mechanisms at play.
Expect several more leaks over the next month or so culminating in the above narrative being trotted out. So pathetic and so utterly predictable.
Mohican has hit the nail on the head.
This announcement to the media is purely to gain leverage during the current negotiations for a new Long Haul EBA. Just like the B787 being the dangled carrot at the last EBA, the Project Sunrise aircraft is the new carrot and if AIPA plays too hard, it will be very easy to portray them as being responsible for killing off Sunrise (especially when Napoleon totally controls the media).