Slightly off track, but no doubt related...
Friend of a friend (ex QF Engineer - funny that) got a job with 34th Squadron for maintaining A330 fleet. Part of his package when he left QF involved staff travel entitlements (limited, however, he still has something from his package for staff travel purposes)...
Now that's he left QF, part of his employment at ADF includes upgradeable to FIRST CLASS tickets on any QF international service.
Says a lot when you have to leave Qantas, and join the ADF, to get better travel entitlements than an employee of the Qantas Group.
Now - not that I begrudge this fellow first class tickets - or for that matter, any of the ADF force - but it gives me the s**ts no end that employees are made to wait 7 years before they get a look at Business Class on international flights...and here's people who aren't even employed by QF grabbing P class when it suits!
I smell a rat.