Many pilots who started at Virgin Blue / Impulse in the early days, now have very rewarding flying careers around the world with some of the world's blue chip airlines.
Where? Who?
So these guys are poor as airline pilots in Australia and go to crap outfits like EK to make ends meet?
7378FE your post should be depressing and a sad wake-up for Australian airline pilots.
Dumb profession now with a blue collar mentality.