Thats a great theory.
How many Jetstar pilots are there?
Just how many pilots are going to come home from good jobs overseas to a crap one to facilitate all this?
How many mainline pilots are there?
Why is mainline still hiring?
Sure, a few mainliners will jump seat for a promotion, but most will not. Why would you take the pay and conditions cut?
The redundancy payouts would be huge, notwithstanding the fact that there would be no-one qualified to fly all these planes, after all the mainliners are on the street.
The bureaucrats have kicked a few goals lately, no-one can deny this fact.
From the pilot perspective a lot of this can be put down to the weak union and even weaker resolve of the pilot group.
Now that ALL the pilots can CLEARLY read the writing on the wall, the bureaucrats are and will find the goals a little harder to come by. (QF; Can we have help to set up the singapore base? pretty please. AIPA; no.)
I have no doubt that managements master plan resembles what was posted above and as I said its a good theory. Temper it with some facts and there is still a few big question marks hanging over it all.