Jetconnect is exactly that, a Trojan horse.
it was as Leah Drake concluded at a Fair Work hearing 'a sham'.
Then you'll probably find JetConnect will be used for more than just the Tasman , allowing cost cutting.
Not quite sure to what costs you refer unless of course you are implying crew terms and conditions? The cost of administration of JC is excessively high but tolerated as it is an IR wedge. Do you work for them perhaps? A small problem becomes the transfer of business case and also the no disadvantage test which provide the rudimentary protections under your FWA. May be worth spending some time on the Act as I am sure IR Qantas lawyers are.
With no lease payments, no fuel expense and CEO Paul Daff admitting that all payments originated in Sydney and even the famed 'capital return' having been sent over by Qantas to be returned by Jetconnect, it is the obvious candidate. It serves no other purpose, but whether the myopically short sighted pilots would do anything isn't known.
A temporary exemption from CASA to operate domestic sectors and there it is, but one suspects politically the tide has turned on foreign workers undercutting Australian FWA abritrated outcomes, so perhaps Qantas will need to wait for another day. A 'trans tasman- labour- exchange model' may not be for either government's stomach.
It will be interesting to see if demand continues to slowly decline (placing pressure on yield) which aircraft are flying domestic trunk routes in the near term....
Maybe then the pilots left will realise that QF don't care to cease the adversarial IR model and will continue to try to source the lowest paid pilots. Given their administrative headcount to aircraft ratio, something Joyce has grown admirably, killing off any efficiency, someone has to pay for the 'street', the failed JQ Asian 'expansion', EK alliances, Red Q, AOC splits and perhaps the most expensive airline management in the world. It ain't going to be the administrative corporate types...
