Sitting in a JQ roadshow recently, the point was raised that whilst executive remuneration ran far ahead of market values, pilot wages (at JQ at least) sat below, and increasingly so as time progresses. We're all beholden to the Qantas 3% wage policy we're told, their hands tied because of the 'threat to the business'. The excuses trotted out to justify this were quite something to behold I thought.