CamelSniffer NO it can't be done. A new type operated by Qantas Airways Ltd will be within the bounds of a contact negotiated between QAL and AIPA. Read the Integration Agreement. If you don't know what it is use a Camel to find it.
Really? Troo, I think you and Camel are talking about two different scenarios.
Flight: QF140 - "Operated by Jetconnect for Qantas."
Flight: QF1514 - "Operated by Qantaslink - National Jet Systems."
Flight: (Insert your favourite Qantas 787 service here) - Operated by ***** for Qantas."
How's your IA working out for you there? All red tail, all plastered with Qantas on the side to keep it feeling like home. Call me a pessimist but I wouldn't say "it can't be done."
* yes, I know this thread is about mainline getting the flying. I just can't see it happening, or at least not on the rates and conditions that mainline has come to expect.