Crusty Demon.....It seems as though you have a short term or selective memory...
You(pilot) also attack the pilot conditions used by Jetstar but when cabin Crew disagree it's somehow different to you....So you're right...
Maybe it's best if you stay away
DirectAnywhere.....If you look at the pay and conditions for the upper management and the board it's a systemic problem and not just for cabin crew,pilots etc....
The main problem is not so much the pay issue of crew instead it's rather an organizational problem that is the cause or the answer to cutting costs...
The old inverted pyramid issue of the airlines management structure is the heart of the problem...
A study years ago looking at a certain level of management found that compared to another much larger airline, we had far more levels of management....so if you want to make the airline more efficient and competitive one way would be to reduce the levels of upper management....big time.
The problem is that which part of the company gets these reports.
Whenever the company commissions a consultant to tell them where the problem is....the ones that should go are given that very analysis.....
And what do they do with the report...file and bury it to save their own jobs.....