Originally Posted by B A Lert
Wrong, wrong and wrong.
..stick to serving tea and coffee Mr Seatback. Please explain to me why crew must be based in Oz to fly aircraft to and from Australia. Since when did the 40 or so foreign airlines base crew in Australia to keep their operations going?
B A Lert - your post is probably a wind up but just incase it isn't, the JQI launch routes as specified so far, wouldn't allow for much flexability with overseas based crew - especially is HNL is one of the 2/3 launch ports.
Overseas crew are only good, IF your pattern planning and slipping allows you to maximise the resource. A HNL route, in the launch phase would all but require Aus crew. To use others would cost the actual cost saving in the extra slipping/allowances.
Remember - O/S crew are not just about saving money on the pay, look at the QF group so far:
1. LHR Base - Saves LH allowances and LHR slips,
2. BKK base - Saves LH allowances and slips
2. AKL SH Base - Aircraft are O/N in the bases so patterns originate from AKL/WLG into Aus - again a saving on slipping/allowances
Same as DJ and JQ O/S based crew.