Obviously, this spells the opening of a NYC base if the USAOA passes their TA. Actually, with or without the TA this will likely happen. If they can pay HKG pilots overtime to fly to New York, then they certainly can afford to pay US pilots the same overtime (at a cheaper rate) to fly between JFK and HKG. They don't even need averaging over two months! However, there is never any harm in asking. The problem is that you now have one group willing to work for blatantly less than another group, and happy to do it.
....and that is why they are only hiring DEFOs onto the bus and queen.