So, if you are eligible, apply the **** out of it, apply to everyone, if you miss out on QF, you might get a gig at J*, VA, or the others. There is a “pilot shortage”, they just don’t want to admit it.
It is a demographic structural shortage.
Qantas IR succeeded, they drove terms and conditions to the gutter. They kept down labour unit cost. People no longer see aviation as a well remunerated rewarding career that requires a long term financial and study commitment. Bravo Qantas IR, Oldmeadow did it! He killed the golden goose.
Qantas pilots call it a wasted decade. They grounded it, locked everyone out, called it 'terminal' then miraculously transformed it, all while not ordering a single aircraft for mainline. They did benefit personally.
Like somehow a 787 with LN 615 being 'a game changer' and denying a career path for their own pilots, they now claim to want a 'flight training' academy (taxpayer on the hook no doubt)
Qantas management have basked in their own magnificence for the years following the 'transformation' The reality is they are dollars short and years late.
Watching it is rather amusing. Alan Joyce was Ireland's greatest export..