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Old 25th Mar 2012, 01:08
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Captain Gidday
 
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So, you guys are saying that the hard working taxpayers of Australia should support a tax break that benefits Jetstar Asia employees, and hence their employer, and other overseas operators too? Does not that just provide a further incentive to 'offshore' all remaining Australian aviation, to the detriment of existing Australian 'onshore' employers?
As far as I can see, if this came in to aviation, it would just about guarantee that there would be no pilots living in Australia a few years from now, at least in some sections of the industry, e.g. international ops and make it a no brainer that domestic ops would all be crewed as tag-on sectors of international operations, by Emirates, Jetstar Asia, Far Q or the like.
Be careful what you wish for.
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