From the self absorbed employers point of view, why not replace Ozi CCs with cheaper, younger and possibly harder working, less complaining maybe even better looking, image enhancing, marketable CCs. Actually if they could just get enough of you long service veterans to take redundancy they could probably accomplish all of the above by employing young Ozi school leavers instead of having to recruit off shore.
All the hard working young Ozi kids wouldn't then have to go and work for the competition overseas earning tax free money and doing wonders for their adopted airlines image and profitability.
So you see, it's not QF who is making this happen. It's all the long term employees who are so much more expensive, demanding and unionized that are at fault. If you would all just retire once you reached the age of 35 you could help keep jobs in Australia for future generations.
