The last post is quite correct.... the Qantas international business is in the proverbial dunny and loads might be high but the yield is totally crap.
The burgeoning crew surplus would have in the past resulted in a redundancy program. It is because of the efficacy of the last EBA and the ongoing consultation with the Union that had avoided that unsightly spectre.
We are by no means out of the woods and the flexibility of continuing pragmatism on the part of crew and their union will be the only hope of avoiding redundancy