Jetstar cadets grounded

[Artificial Horizon]

So I was having a read of the Pilots Award 2010 and it states that the minimum wage for a full time pilot employed by an airline on narrow body jet aircraft is $71,397. I assume this is what the cadet pilots are now getting paid, or in other words approx. $99,000 new zealand dollars which is around $35,000 per annum MORE than a Jetstar NZ First Officer!! Bruce, Bruce, Bruce.... And here I was thinking that part of the reason for starting a cadet scheme was because you couldn't fill the FO positions in NZ without a significant increase in the FO's wage so you thought the answer was to employ cadets on $42,000 NZD to solve that problem. What a ****