Sorry Flyboy but I think the days of any airline pilots expecting to earn in the region of 300-400k per annum in New Zealand are long gone.
If you want to go offshore and live in some sh*thole to achieve these figures then so be it. But with fuel prices going the way they are going, the publics appetite for low cost fares and the take over of our industry by accountants those sorts of aspirations are becoming unrealistic by the day.
Got to disagree as well, the Jetstar FO rates are not good enough at the moment and miss the bar by a long way. The Captains rates however also need tweeking but are not totally outrageous. Pac Blue, Jetconnect and Jetstar are all currently within a few percent of each other, they all lag significantly behind Air NZ, but we can't all work for Air NZ now can we.