You've lost me there.....
Why would 7000 employees have such hatred for a sister company? Do they hate Qantaslink? Qantas Reservations?
I have yet to see anyone put some time and effort into drawing a good solid picture of what the Qantas Group would look like of they HADN'T started JQ. But over the years in far away places have met plenty of displaced and furloughed Americans whose airlines failed to do anything much at all and got crunched by low-cost competition.