I think you have hit the nail on the head - and it paints a picture for not only AUS JQ but QF domestic crews as well.
I have an application in for J* and, like all other J* applicants, I received an email inviting applications for J*NZ. They made it very clear that there will be NO transfers to JQ AUS and meanwhile JQ AUS is not recruiting at all.
KRudd has only last month been to UnZud to broker a deal to make trans-tasman flights "domestic".
Qualifications are mutuilly ricognised through the TTMRA.
Language and skin colour aren't a barrier to the prijudices of the gineral publuc.
The stage is set for a wholesale export of high-paying Australian jobs to New Zealand. It will happen soon, it will happen quickly and smoothly, and to the general public it will be imperceptible.
Right under the AFAP and AIPA's noses
I ask again - where are the angry public statements from OUR union?