correct... and all the lobbying and the hundreds of thousands of dollards spent by the FAAA over many years lobbying CASA and politicians has never delivered FDL for Australian Based Cabin Crew.
Put quite simply neither the ALP or the LIBS are remotely interested in doing anything that will add cost to the operators of airlines.
Put simply yet again... the travelling public dont give a rats Ass about flight attendants working conditions they are only interested in cheap airfares.
The government is allowing almost total deregulation and Qantas Group compete with that. The unions job is to protect jobs. whilst at the same time trying to improve conditions.
In a time when neither the govt, regulator, airlines or travelling public have an appetite for FDL then its very challenging. Perhaps if there is a major accident or incident that can be attributed to fatigue from F/A's then that appetite might change . Until then lobbying, use of media etc is all we can do