Two totally different scenarios, Jetstar will be in a much stronger position going forward due to it’s lack of long haul international exposure. Air NZ like Qantas Mainline have a massive exposure to long haul groundings for a significant period, the luxury that Qantas has is that they are able to stand people down of their choosing on no pay, Air NZ can not. So Air NZ is possibly facing paying someone $300,000 per year when there is no useful work for them, their only choice barring that pilot volunteering to go on LWOP, is to make people redundant. This will mean the most junior people which still doesn’t solve the $300,000 guy sitting at home, to make use of him/her requires a massive down training programme, Air NZ are screwed by their contract. It will be up to the pilots now to vote on a solution, would the A320 pilots and Longhaul SO’s have the numbers to vote through a variation allowing the company to assign LWOP? If not good luck getting the $300,000 guy to volunteer to do so.