Qantas Management are playing a very clever game, everybody has taken their eye off the ball. Everyone thinks all these A320 orders are going to go to Jetstar.
Have a little look at what is happening a QLink, new COO, new Chief Pilot new head of maintaince, apparently the guy who was in charge of overseeing the repair of the A380 that had all the drama's.
These people are not being positioned to run a Q400 operation, they are being positioned to expand QLink into the domestic market and reduce the mainline flying and overheads.
While also taking some flying off Jetstar, by doing this it will have a couple of effects, it will reduce the cost structure and aslo allow customers to believe they are flying with the Qantas mainline product.
It will also allow the figures that have recently come out indicating Virgin are carrying more passengers than Qantas to be retrieved from Jetstar and placed back under Qantas Domestic figures.
Mainline Domestic pilots will probably be given an option to apply to QLink and this will be the new Domestic B scale.
Watch how the game is played, all this will probably occur in the next twelve months if not sooner.
I know what the response will be, QLink will never gets Jets, they will go to Alliance or Cobham etc, just go back to the facts and look what is happening, at a very fast pace.
Last edited by teggun; 5th Jul 2012 at 03:22.