Boeing Belly, the only "dreaming" I do about Oz is keeping check of the 3 houses I`ve bought there, SINCE leaving, thanks to incomes in OTHER than AUD`s....and the 4 weeks (paid) leave I`ll be enjoying starting in about 2 weeks - the third lot of leave this year.
Anyway, this topic, and the question, would NEVER have had to be asked, had the greedy mercenaries from overseas (and Hawk) not become involved in OUR industrial relations with our companies! As was usual, there would have been an agreed settlement, and as can be seen from the CURRENT agreement between Virgin Blue, its pilots anf the Federation, an AFFORDABLE agreement.
Offchocks, the QF international pilots ARE underpaid in relation to other Western airline company`s pilots, and the value of the AUD vs USD, however the QFdom "senior" pilots are grossly overpaid and underworked!
Ahhh, holidays - aren`t they great!