My thoughts:
A new airline called Qantas Asia will be announced on August 24th (approximate anniversary of the pilots strike back in '89)
Qantas will move all their long haul operations and base them out of Singapore/Hong Kong/Bangkok and thus require their pilots to resign contracts on much lower salaries than what they are currently on.
I personally do not think they have been over paid at all. My personal opinion is that they are under paid at the moment. When I worked for a company my salary increased relative to inflation how QF pilots didn't. To me that is disgusting.
Alan Joyce says in not so many words - I like the pilots but I don't like the unions.
ABC Interview
Thought - The union is made up of pilots.
Why would Alan Joyce give a f#$% about an Australian carrier he is Irish. He doesn't give two hoots. Like Sol from Telstra, he didn't give two *****s about Telstra, left it in a piece of crap state for someone else to clean up. Thankfully its happening now.
It's foul what is happening and it's a story that requires some proper journalism and media coverage at the highest levels from both sides of the fence not just the Qantas spin from HQ.
Beau