Airlines do not exist for pilots.
They exist to make money for the shareholders. They exist to carry people (customers or guests whatever you like). They exist to ensure those executives luckly enough to have their heads in the trough make big bonuses.
Pilots (LAMEs and cabin crew) are necessary appendages.
Pilots lost their ability to influence management with the demise of the open cockpit. Manning is so far down the food chain that any bleats he may have let forth would not have been noticed by Dixon, Boghetti, Gregg, Joyce or co. It would have meant expenditure. Reduced profit. Lower bonus.
The new pilot training scheme introduced by QF is not about pilots it is about making money out of training. It doesn't have a pilot heading it up, it has an exco member, Curtis Davies).
Gents, the new world has arrived. Pilots are the bus drivers of the new century. Why because we talk talk talk talk about how bad things are. If there is a shortage now is the time to demand what we think we are worth.
Reality. We are not prepared to do that. If we pushed the point the pilot group would split in to pieces. The senior pilots in QF are not prepared to have their superannuation put in danger and why should they.
Because of this the new world is upon us.
Seniority is dead.
EBA for direct entry at you current rank / experience is the solution. JQ do that now. Why not the mainline.