Why not take it a bit further - give all RAAF pilots QF 'ghost ' seniority numbers when they join the RAAF.?
The problems here are that Qantas is being talked about as if it was still a goverment owned instrument of national policy.
It isn't. It's a publicly listed company whose only responsibility is to make a return to it's shareholders.
Any such scheme would have to be AT LEAST cost neutral to QF.