From the comments above, it seems that this scheme is not designed to provide pilots for Air NZ. If successful graduates then fly around in the weeds building up hours pror to getting into one of the ANZ bits, then whats in it for Air NZ? My guess is that this is just a mechanism to put more hours on the Air NZ sims in Auckland. Any training organization with access to jet sims was therefore never going to get a look in as a trainer.
Cynical check: complete.