I think that the Thai based crew have to do airport standby's in BKK so you can bet that there will be a few paxing Thai crew flying around Asia to replace LHR based crew,if there are any spare Thai crew in BKK that is.
If there is large sick leave now,imagaine how many will be pulling the plug when the slips are reduced.
However,with the LHR base a pet project with both LG and GD they will not be quick to admit anything is wrong.Ceryainly , no one so far has said anything about an hour cap issue but I think it will have to be raised at the next shareholders meeting as well as the imminent failure of Jetstar Asia which will cost the sharholders a packet.Let's see GD talk himself out of that