ANstar wrote:
"During ecominc downturns the LCC's usually pick passengers up from full service carriers as business' will no longer pay the $$$ for full service, so there exec's go to a LCC. This is what happened in the EU & USA after 911, so why wouldnt a similar thing happen here with JQ?
Surely it would be QF that would hurt with their higher costs and higher fares"
Yes I've heard that theory as well.
However what exactly would the cost difference be for the "Qantas Group" to retrench great numbers of Qantas pilots VS JetStar pilots.
What if any protections does each pilots' respective contract provide.
Sections 12.9 and 13.4.1 of the Qantas pilot's Certified Agreement VS Section 35 of the JetStar Pilot's agreement might just distort the bean counters ideology a tad in favour of keeping Qantas pilots on ,due to the huge cost involved with the wholesale retrenching of Qantas pilots.
Just a thought.
