Kangaroota; I dont understand what your actually trying to get across. ANZ will never put RJ's into Air Nelson, and as other posts have said, you have a greater chance of being combined with Eagle and Mt Cook in a bigger regional combined push against competition.....
The only airlines this 'out' clause affects is Freedom and ANZ. What you should be concerned about are those collegues of yours in the regional airlines who have already been given 'yes' letters but now have to sit behind all those transferring pilots between SJ and ANZ (both ways). Where do they stand now?
Yes, ALPA are feathering one set of pilots nests, but get real if you think this is the first time this has happened. Sorry, but welcome to the real world. The ANZ pilots wanted the clause included for their own benieft, not anyone elses.... it gives them options. They don't care about those of us who still have more than a decade to go before we get to sit around all day...... as we probably wouldn't either if we were their age and unprepared for retirement as many of them are.