Some posters on this thread completely miss the point of Jetstar. It was launched for no reason other than to achieve the cost savings that QF mainline obviously could not achieve. Such cost savings are beyond reach for a variety of reasons, an important one being the industrial roadblocks being created by various labor unions.
Jetbest tries his best to convince us that jetstar pilots should negotiate a longhaul style award including credit hours, but this is exactly what QF are avoiding by contracting non AIPA pilots to fly the aircraft.
I cannot wait to have this same discussion here on pprune in the future when the penny finally drops at AIPA headquarters as more and more flying is transferred to franchise operations leaving nothing but select longhaul premium routes for QF mainline crew. Hopefully then, AIPA will become pragmatic enough to understand that compromising on pay and conditions is a more effective way of managing inevitable change than continually being a victim of it. AIPA (and many labor unions in developed countries) stands a good chance of driving itself into irrelevancy.
“You already are the lowest paid airline pilots, Jetstar were or are never going to give the flying to anyone else.”
Smoke on go, I am interested to know if you are one of the QF pilots often quoted as saying that QF 767 pilots are the lowest paid in the world?
It has been pointed out here before that the deal on offer by Jetstar is still as good or better than a lot of similar jobs being offered in Canada, the US, South Africa, Europe and even Asia.