When Qlink pilots applied to airlines like Cathay and Emirates the acceptance rate was well over 95%. Only TWO Qlink pilots were unsuccessful (one at each). Compared with Qantas, where only 51% of the Qlink pilots were successful.
Wow, no wonder you feel hard done by when you set your expectations this high. I’d have thought a 51% success rate was pretty good. Expecting that nearly every single applicant (95%) should be successful because they worked at QLink is a bit delusional I’m afraid. What about RAAF applicants? What about applicants from JQ, VA, EK, CX, etc.?
When there are over a thousand applicants for less than 200 jobs in a year, a lot of high quality pilots will get rejected sadly. It is not to say that they are not good enough to do the job but simply that there are more good candidates than jobs available.
Given there was no recruitment for around 8 years there is sure to be a backlog of high quality candidates. This will lessen in time and the good news is that Qantas recruitment will continue for a good few years yet so people who have been knocked back today may get a different response a year or two down the track (if they are still interested that is).