Either way it's incredibly stressful on both sides of the Tasman, Qantas or Jetconnect. There are some very strong emotions coming through here. The very sad thing is that it is commonly quoted that Jetconnect are taking flying off mainline. This is indeed very true, but isn't this the same with Jetstar taking mainline routes? Aren't these guys in the sane union?
Unfortunately across all industries in NZ, pay levels are all around 40% lower than that of Australia. The Mexico of the pacific. It's unfortunate that all Australian companies can see the advantage, Virgin and Jetstar NZ are indeed in this basket.
The angry chaps on this site that continually slag the likes of Jetconnect etc should be putting more time and effort into getting their union to set up a ghost seniority system to give them an opportunity to progress into a command within a "group" airline rather than trying to get rid of them.
Because this management group will not reinstate the old legacy Qantas back
onto the route but rather expand the Jetstar product with a "operated by
Jetstar" sticker on the side instead of "operated by Jetconnect"