Very insightful Dr P. The operating flexibility you describe is indeed ingenious.
Nonetheless, Jetstar Asia & Jetstar Australia are not one and the same. As things stand, the difference in % Australian ownership of each is both necessary and problematic, but without legislative change, it will become increasingly tricky to reconcile ownership with open skies opportunity.
Don’t know what bought about the massive change in labour-management relations @ AA, but do know that US aviation unions work hard to influence US aviation policy and necessity is the mother of invention.