The tide is way out , big Tsunami barreling in & the response is - let's give everyone a pay rise
Rookie error by QF management
Maybe not if the A380 doesn't return and the 330 fleet is reduced significantly. They've now got a wage and conditions agreement significantly more favourable than they would otherwise have anticipated when things return to even a modicum of normality - especially when they won't stand pilots up until they can justify the expense. Don't forget this agreement will be halfway to expiry by the time things even look like 'normal' and if they get their way, 'variations' will have been proposed and voted on, precisely developed to ensure a majority will support them.