A very astute post Prong Wallop.
Agreed-
· Jetstar cannot just give away seat capacity to a subsidiary entity, and
· Foreign entities operating their bilateral capacity with Australian Pilots ...is an abuse of their entitlement to bilateral seating capacity and a blatant abuse of cabotage.
However, part of Albanese’s white paper review of Australia’s aviation policy proposes replacing ‘Bilateral Provisions’ with ‘Principal Place of Residence Provisions’.
Public detail is scare, but suspect changes will be designed to facilitate cunning circumvention of the issues you have raised.
The pilot unions need to take a close look at legislative changes flowing from the white paper. While they continue to expend effort on small change industrial issues whilst ignoring game changing commercial issues, Australia's pilots will remain on a hiding to nothing.