HGW, tell someone who cares. You aint a manager of my airline pal, you spend too much time on pprune for that.
On the topic you have mentioned re AO etc and Branson. I think you will find that Branson won't be doing ANY trans Pacific flying. SQ are the ones pushing for the Pacific, Branson will make way for a successfull SQ bid. Why would he invest the HUGE sums of money required only to be competing with SQ?
Who knows whats going to happen to wages in the big scheme of things. With your precise data collection and tabling of facts and figures to malfunction junction down in Canberra, maybe you could enlighten me and other professional pilots as to the "upsurge" in air travel thats going to mean better wages? It's all speculation.