Vigi-one
Bitter Balance is correct.The Eastern australia pilots came up with some hare brained scheme to integrate their seniority with Impulse pilots allowing them some sort of progression onto a jet.
The Impulse guy's didn't want to have anything to do with it as it would disadvantage them in the future and only Eastern guy's would gain.It had nothing to do with AIPA.
I would have tried the same thing if I had been in the Eastern's guy's shoes.
As far as crewing the LCC goes, those of you still bleating about mainline crewing it, WAKE UP !!
It will either be crewed by Impulse or a greenfields company which I am sure will recruit their own crew.
Hopefully if it is a greenfields company they will not discriminate against current Qantas group pilots ie Easterns,Impulse and Sunstate pilots but I doubt it.