Fair enough Going Boeing, I hadn't thought of those costs.
Rough figures, with the exchange rates and lower pay of kiwi pilots I thought it would be about $750NZ a day cheaper for tech crew from NZ to operate the tasman.That is only about 273K per annum cheaper, a drop in the bucket and hardly worth the headache that would come from implementing it. (Let alone the costs)If you added $1500 a day for overnight allowences for tech and cabin crew, and the hotel costs, then you're looking at $2250 a day, or 821k per annum. The figures are probably not particularly accurate, but even so I don't reckon it would be worth it for about 1 mil cheaper operating costs on the Tasman.
Maybe if the cabin crew are cheaper as well it might be more but surely the Tasman market isn't that tight? I still think of it as a step backwards
