Xwindldg,
Maybe this result is the final nail in the coffin of bases. However, that will just be because of the small minded petty thinking that infests Hello Kitty City and should have nothing to do with this result.
What you are forgetting is that every base, apart from NZ, have contracts that are local law compliant. In Cathay language that is expressed as "on-shored". The kiwis still had in their COS that HK law applied. As kiwis tend to be, they were the odd ones out.
So yeah, the Company could spit the dummy and overreact, but it would just be another dumb decision to add to the long list of other dumb decisions....
Oil price dropping- hedge massively against rising oil prices. - doh....
Need 3 man, cancel RPs, get hit with TB, can't do 3 man except 252/253, let LHR base numbers drop so can't even do 252/253, still stuck with TB....doh....
Invest in CMP project, alienate IT staff, alienate pilots, CMP project delayed -doh....
Sign CBA with USAOA, overlook Kincare, try to shaft pilots on A-days, Kincare bites them in the @ss- doh.... Global pilot market tightens, T&Cs start to rise, email all your pilots threatening to cut their T&Cs... Let's see how that works out for them....