Folks,
President of the union to a senior executive of Qantas is a well worn path, going right back to Bert Ritchie, who was GM when I first got a job with QF.
But even I must admit this one is "interesting", all the others have already been Captains. However, it isn't war, if the person is ambitious, what's wrong with that --- the members can always vote any deal down, or, indeed, being a current pilot may be an advantage in minimizing the historically adversarial approach of whatever the QF industrial relations office is now called,has always taken to pilot T&Cs.
And by "historical" I mean right back to the early history of the company -- by the 1960s there were textbooks citing QF and BHP as examples of how not to manage staff.
Tootle pip!!
PS: Two of us, one domestic and one AFAP/OSB started working with DCA on a revision of ANO 48 in 1968 ---- and it still ain't done ---- does this qualify for the Guinness Book Of Records. 50 years??