Galdian, you get it.
Jetstar started out being sold to QF staff as "protection" from anyone else setting up a LCC, and has ended up as an industrial instrument of GD. I dont however credit him with having this vision all along, it fell in his lap courtesy of the AO trial and subsequent perceived failure. The reality was it was a massive success industrially for the management.
It was the proof the board needed that they could destroy terms and conditions without a fight. Not even a whimper. (Not) Surprisingly it was the current chief pilot who facilitated the shafting, and was subsequently rewarded with a management role for effectively overseeing the end of mainline terms and conditions as we knew them. It all starts to make sense when you look back at how hard he pushed for AO to happen when he ran the union.
EWL already eludes to a blurring of the boundaries between J* and mainline, he also points out that people dont want to fly LCC over any great distance.
Lets project this forward a few years from now. Jetstar international is in trouble, people have decided they dont want to pay for toilet paper on a longhaul flight. The "experiment" fails. Why dont we just do what we did with AO, and paint the aircraft red and white, and leave the people on jetstar pay rates? Surprise surprise!