“Jetstar has a unionized pilot workforce, more and moreso with every passing day.”
Kremin, you are correct. Most airlines, even LCC’s and startups, have some form of ineffective union participation. From an employees perspective you may have the warm and fuzzy feeling that organized labor brings but from a business perspective, airlines such as Jetstar can be started and to some extent operated virtually free of the industrial barriers that hobbled Ansett and still hobble Qantas. DEC’s, crew compliments, foreign bases, lower salaries, fewer benefits.
Jetstar is EFFECTIVELY un unionized. You missed the subtlety in my previous post.