People such as spad are willing to point fingers at QF pilots, or Impulse pilots, or returnees or anybody in order to aportion blame for what some see as the "abyss" facing the Australian airline industry.
This may give him a warm feeling inside attaching such a simplistic label to an extremely complex set of circumstances - but achieves very little.
Attempting to emulate a strategy employed back in "the sixties" highlights how out of touch some folk are with business dynamics now at play.
QF is competing in a global market where capital flows from one business into the next across national boundries in a way that did not occur when the AFAP had centre stage. The industry in Oz could afford to run without the influences of the wider market.
This is no longer the case. Dixon is driven by shareholder return and nothing more.
The bottom line is that the industry is changing, capital markets are changing, passenger demands are changing and to think that pilots have a hand in stopping this is absurd.
This issue is much bigger than what union you belong to.