With time to command with the legacy carriers somewhere around the 20 year plus mark. I wouldn't want to be making beds and serving the Captain coffee for the next 5 to 10 years before I get to move into the Right seat for another 10 years..
And yet you want to fly for a company that will have you earning about 80k a year less while you wait, and by its own admission says there will be extremely limited promotional opportunites?
If you think that 2 to 3 years is a possibility, you've got rocks in your head. The point is that there will be a stream of applicants for VA, and you can bet your bottom dollar they will be for Direct Entry F/O positions, while all the cruise F/O's sit there logging hour after hour of time that is getting them nowhere, but being paid 80k less than their Qantas brothers for doing the same thing.