The 'alliance' with Alliance is supposedly for 12 months....
What then? The company portray this as a crewing resource issue, which is part of the problem, but when they restore the pilot numbers, what do they have to re-commence those 70-100 seat routes in QLD that Alliance are supposedly covering as a temporary issue....?
The answer is nothing. Therefore this must be a deliberate strategy all along to contract out the 70-100 seater market...
In other words, this arrangement is as 'temporary' as the Federal budgets deficits are promised to be.