Radnav, You are an idi... no, we can't say that these days can we.
Radnav, I disagree with what you just said.
Anyone has a choice these days, including QF shorthaul pilots. Some of them aren't members of any union. One such lad, actually joined AIPA for the duration of his Airbus conversion, must have been something to do with all the Airbus conversion failures from shorthaul ranks, and then promptly resigned again once he passed the course.
He is probably one of the people who are currently threatening legal action over the move of the A330 from shorthaul rostering to longhaul rostering.
That is by-the-by. I am glad that AIPA split from the AFAP all those years ago. It probably saved me from having to leave the country in 89. You can snipe from the sidelines all you like with you ideological BS, but nothing will change that fact.