It may be helpful to realise that Qantas always acts in bad faith. They act in bad faith with their customers in a variety of ways. They act in bad faith with their loyalty members in a variety of ways. They continue to act in bad faith with their former ground staff, their current cabin crew contractors and the various pilot groups. They allowed Joyce to profit by insider trading to the detriment of the shareholders.They threatened redundancy during covid to get pilots to surrender vacation entitlements. They. bargain in bad faith (mandatory pay freeze, anyone?) yet accuse others of being intractable . They use cheap industrial wedge tactics to lower their cost base, then increase executive compensation with the savings.
Qantas will always do what is best for the executives. Period.
On crewing the A220: It would be completely in character for Qantas to threaten redundancy to a pilot with two years service but “offering” instead a five year contract on the 220. Using a QF seniority number as a handcuff is exactly the kind of cynical ploy I have come to expect from them. Any resulting ill will would be someone else’s problem.