All the talk about AIPA launching a Transmission of Business action is laughable. Any such case would run smack bang into the same road block BALPA ran into when it attempted to use UK law to stop BA's European based expansion.
Aussie transmission of business (Fair Work) legislation simply can't constrain off shoring and/or globalisation.
However, AeroStatic’s view on:
IFALPA...is a starting point and a QF group opportunity list one of the end goals...
Offers realistic hope.
The GOAL needs to be kicked sometime soon, as piloting jobs with 'Qantas Mainline' are in decline, along with the fabled White Rat, which will increasingly become an A380 Protected Species seen only on LA & London runs. 
Last edited by Gingerbread; 28th Aug 2009 at 08:52.