Casualvermin,
the elected members of the FAAA are philosophically and ideoligically opposed to the action QF management and it's determination to destroy the career aspirations and conditions of ALL Australian based flight attendants.
By this, I mean that they will not pursue a course of actions that benefits their membership AT THE EXPENSE of other flight attendant groups.
Their approach to industrial relations [as it appears to me] seems to be FAR broader and more strategic than that of the blindingly myopic and shortsighted shorthaul division.
One Union representing ALL QF flight attendants must surely benefit the lot of us [shorthaul and longhaul] in our fight to maintain decent pay and conditions.
QF has made hay using the "divide and conquer" technique to ALL our detriment.
Providing a merger of the two is structured properly I can see no reason why it wouldn't work.