Fruit, thanks for the correction on the numbers. A long time ago now and the memory is a bit fuzzy.
....but by August it will have hired local staff for its domestic flights - but it will not say how many people it will be employing in New Zealand."
This was my original point in response to Elzilcho though. The issue wasn't that mainline pilots didn't want the flying when Jetconnect was created, it was that Qantas set it up to deliberately exclude mainline pilots from it.
How many aircraft in Jetconnect/ Kiwi rego now? Still 8 or is it more than that. Either way, when they closed down Qantas domestic NZ, those airframes and crew were shifted. To the Tasman to the detriment of mainline pilot flying hours.