I believe the the A220 order was also subject to screwing pilots down as low as possible. The impression I got was that if the NJS guys voted this unilateral agreement down, the order would not be placed. This puts QF in a weird position in a couple of ways. First, the whole green airline thing means they have to renew the fleet. Second, once the 717 is retired, which by current reliability rates is going to be soon, QF won’t have much of a regional jet presence. In a time where green is good and there are regional jet start ups who will gladly take that market share off QF, I think it’s time for the hipsters to put and end to their futile war against the only group of people qualified to save their airline.