ATTN: JETSTAR FLIGHT CREW/MANAGEMENT
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ATTN: JETSTAR FLIGHT CREW/MANAGEMENT
Hi folks,
just wanting to see if anyone has heard the fate of the newly re-registered 6 x 717's you lot have? I know a few are offline now and are operational spares, and a few are still flying, but where are they going?
I did hear a few months back they were destined for Hong Kong for a new startup low cost carrier and JQ Australia was to supply the initial aircraft and tech crew for this (same as Nat Jet does for QF), but I suspect this is bull
. There are a few boys at Nat Jet that were so impressed by the JQ operation during their line training that they put in applications, and were hoping to get hired and take their endorsement to honkers for a year (the so called length of the 'mystery contract') and then come home to oz and get a free bus endorsement. HA! All those years on the 146... fumes have taken their toll. Me, well if they had direct entry command, then maybe then they would get my application... Anyway cheers! 
just wanting to see if anyone has heard the fate of the newly re-registered 6 x 717's you lot have? I know a few are offline now and are operational spares, and a few are still flying, but where are they going?
I did hear a few months back they were destined for Hong Kong for a new startup low cost carrier and JQ Australia was to supply the initial aircraft and tech crew for this (same as Nat Jet does for QF), but I suspect this is bull
. There are a few boys at Nat Jet that were so impressed by the JQ operation during their line training that they put in applications, and were hoping to get hired and take their endorsement to honkers for a year (the so called length of the 'mystery contract') and then come home to oz and get a free bus endorsement. HA! All those years on the 146... fumes have taken their toll. Me, well if they had direct entry command, then maybe then they would get my application... Anyway cheers!
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The story doing the rounds of the rat HQ is that the 6 717s are to go to a new startup called 'extractabuck'. Apparently it is a low cost outfit set up with wages and conditions just a fraction of the cost of jetstar to be based in the lucrative business mecca known as Shepparton. Initially tech crew will be sourced from Bombay until a more cost effective solution can be found.
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Not as strange as it seems Dodgy. That must be where Fat B@stard from Easterns is going. Off to NJS something at QCC.
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Originally Posted by ITCZ
Bwest, I know something that you dont. 
This was brought up last week on another thread, seems Qantaslink will redeploy the 717 on east coast.
Haven't you heard about the impending 'BIG announcement' for Qantaslink
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Haven't you heard about the impending 'BIG announcement' for Qantaslink
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