Amos2, a QF S/O with a bit of time will get pretty close to those
VB Capt salary figures and their "package" would exceed it.
QF Mainline is the last bastion of half reasonable pay and conditions in this country but it wont last. The company is successfully nibbling it away, demanding offsets for everything and soon will have cheap jet drivers on good equipment to wield as a big stick if they want. Just wait till Jetstar has a pile of Airbuses running around canabalising Qandom and the game will be on.
The mainline drivers are the deer in the company headlights and the best thing to do is use the temporary "good" conditions to set up alternative streams of income.
The Jetstar drivers are the darlings of management. They work cheap and accept what they are given. Can't ask for much more than that. AIPA gave them the cold shoulder when it counted and now can't rescue much from the train wreck. They probably can't spare too much time on the issue as getting seniority for non member non employed cadets is what's important
If AIPA negotiated 100% of Jetstar positions offered to mainline it wouldn't matter. No one in their right mind would go there on the current deal so the company would get the result they desired anyway.
Swotting the mossies while you are up to your a#$e in alligators springs to mind.