Come on leave NewPiper alone, I need a laugh now and again, his ignorance is only surpassed by that of senior Q management. Bluff and Bull$hit doesn't crew aircraft, no amount of HR spiv will close the door and start the engines.
Talking to a few J* pilots it appears many of the flights being cancelled are due to no crew (pilots) being available to operate then. Just as
Cathay is finding out, experienced pilots will not hang around when there is something better on offer. Of the 100 or so pilots who have resigned (not including retirees) Qantas in recent years only around 25% have gone to work for JetStar, the rest have just seen the despair of no prospects, no future and no promotion and headed off to the middle east etc.
I'm sure NP and his mates thought they could get these boys and girls bluffed to work for cr@p with J* but Psychology101 has not worked and we are just feeding well trained crews to the competition all over the world.
Used car salesmen, the lot of them.