I reckon you’re given (sic) HR way, way too much credit. Everything I’ve observed over the last 5-6 years shows that they’re not that strategic.
Au contraire, I am not giving the 'credit' to HR,
I give it to IR. Labour organisations play checkers, these people play chess.
There is precedent all over the industry for this type of play.
Whilst personally it may calm you to believe this is an accident, did JQ get bigger than Mr Dixon's promised 23 aircraft?
Jetconnect quietly bubbled along for a decade and assumed the form it is now, do you really believe that was mere accident?
In 2003 Jetconnect's principal activity was;
Is the employment and on-hire of leasing of cabin crew to operate domestic commercial aircraft flights within New Zealand.
to;
'Operation and management of aircraft in order to fulfill an operating schedule of trans Tasman commercial passenger flights'
With that small adjustment went domestic pilot density and salary.
Qantas pilots ought quietly ask themselves, can the same management who grounded and locked you out, called you 'terminal' and made millions from 'transformation' now really truly be trusted not to again play the same game?