Qantas longhaul pilots don’t get paid a salary. Short haul pilots get paid a salary. Then they get other money as well.
Each two weeks they get an amount of money that goes into their nominated bank account. It is the amount left over after deductions, one of which is tax.
Some of it is meal allowances, some of it is ODTA/ADTA.
Various parts of the gross of that money get taxed at different rates for different reasons.
I never said that the ATO thought that allowances were part of salary. All I said was that these days a lot of aircrew use meal allowances to inflate their income so that a bank will give them a bigger loan. No more no less.
Some people choose to include meal allowances and superannuation when describing how much someone is paid. I’m not one of them.