The reason for this is executives are petrified of being held to ransom by the pilot body. If there was one point of entry into an airline, in the case of QF being QantasLink and people moved around beyond that and had a career path, then that will give leverage to the pilot group. The pilots in one union could shutdown the airline. As a result they create a stream of sub contractors to play off each other and I would suggest that QANTAS Executive Management would rather go broke running that strategy than give Australian Pilots anything resembling a career path within the airline.
That is precisely correct.
With cult like fundamentalism seeping the corridors of Coward Street, Waterside and Cathay Pacific City, the last thing they would ever do is provide a career path.
For with industrial harmony, happy 'contributing' people, the floors of dark art practitioners would lose their
raison d'etre