‘Pay dividends’? Depends on what outcome you are seeking as to whether you view the dividend being paid as a good thing or not. I’m all for offering a pathway for those within the group but if the result of that is a more capable pilot misses out from externally and we take someone less capable (but still ‘suitable’) internally then that’s may not be the best outcome for mainline in the long term.
There is an implied assumption here that HR-controlled pilot recruitment at QF mainline hires the most capable candidate.
Once upon a time perhaps....but I think most of us can see that this is not necessarily or consistently the case in these days of HR mumbo jumbo!
PG