They know if they sack someone the whole thing is exposed....really sad that! Is it a "Genuine Redundancy"? They will continue to recruit to the subsidiaries and contractors(Cobham etc)
VR on offer for several years but they have not taken up the avenue because they need pilots sometime in the future.
They decided to go down this path and it is heading for a cliff....Royal Commission perhaps? I doubt it, they will slip off into the Irish countryside and live in a castle..
As for the Jetconnect case, a manufactured outcome manipulated to suit. Jetconnect does NOT sell tickets, does NOT employ staff directly as they are paid for from Sydney(QF) and their profit/loss can be manipulated. The NZ$125 million they have is from the takeover of Ansett NZ and cannot be taken out of the country. It is used to subsidise the Jetstar NZ losses.
