Heard from a good source that at a recent AirnZ (Jet)Check captains meeting, the MPL issue was brought up and there is plenty of resistance about letting MPL's participate on their flight decks.
Also figures of 140 pilots/year for 4 or so years to come is what Air NZ is looking at in terms of recruiting.
Apparantly no Link training managers were involved in discussions about forming the Acadamy and how grad's would be integrated.
Will be interesting to see how it progresses.
S2K