Birds to Perches... I was referring to QF's o/seas bases (AN doesnt have any), we have overseas based f/a's in Japan, AKL and BKK and they are locals.
Cabinboy, it's on the QF Cabin Crew Website (a QF run website for passsing info onto crew) that we will have six-month contract f/a's employed to help with the opening of the new Long Haul bases, presumably they will come from the short list (there's still hundreds on the shortlist from what I hear). Not too sure if they will be offered fulltime employment after their contract expires....it's doubtful though, as the casuals we have were expecting to get any full-time jobs that were going, but we've just put through a ground course of full-timers last month, and none of the current casuals were given full-time positions !!