I would like to hear the positions of NZALPA as well as the relevant Australian pilots' unions.
The purpose of a strike is to disrupt operations but not too much, the pilots want to have jobs to come back to afterwards, with a noticeable hit to the Company's bottom line.
VANZ pilots may well support some operations carried out by VAA aircraft and crew. The company will get the headache, and hit to the hip pocket nerve, but it would minimise unnecessary damage to the customers and the brand long term. VAA only has the capacity to cover a little of VANZ's flying anyway, only with VH- reg aircraft. Besides which, few (no) VAA crew would be current on RAR, ZQN, WLG, VLI.
Until I hear NZALPA's blessing I won't be seen east of Cape Byron.