Stillgoing is spot on!
Australian arrogance never surprises me. Just because it is Jetstar, why does it have anything to do with Australian tax laws? Do you automatically assume the pilots employed will be Australian? Not Canadian? NZ? Samoan? Unemployed bum?
Are you trying to say that if a Canadian is employed he will be subject to Aus tax laws as that is where (we presume) the airline is controlled. Get your hand off it!
With pilot cadet training courses now flourishing with Chinese based airlines and a lot of that training being done by Australians in Oz at places like Oxford and FTA, it makes sense that the budget workforce will come from China Eastern, with the aircraft and branding from Jetstar.
Growth in Hong Kong will occur at the expense of one (or more) of the other established Jetstar franchises.
It will obviously all be under local terms and conditions, placing pressure on the other businesses to lower their labour costs. Welcome to the D-scale!
The ATO will not see any tax revenue, because as a group company, the books will be manipulated to ensure the loss is transferred to the necessary entity. So Australians are yet again training themselves out of a job, and helping out another country!
