When I forwarded the airliners.net pic to friends at PER on 23MAR, apparently all the XR staff there thought it was fake! Hats will be eaten.
An XR sales rep told me that their current plans for the A320 are to do charters only for now. Granites I beleive. That's a whole lot of capacity for a minesite.
With JQ, TT and VC all using A320 out of Perth now, you could look at it 2 ways. Either that with so many A320 qualified staff in PER it might be easier for XR to poach, or with so much demand placed on A320 staff that they're all in positions and they'll have trouble recruiting.
I have cabin crew aquaintances in both VC and XR. The VC girl flies so infrequently she calls herself a lady of leisure, so yeah, tarmac holders aren't really the way forward. Ozjet 2 in my opinion, something for another thread.
I'll bug my XR friend about rumours of type training for cabin crew. He gets regular overnights on F100s to BME so he won't be too happy.
Anyone thinking the extra range might mean different destinations?