CD
I suggest it really started when the QF pilots walked away from the AFAP and responsibility to their fellow pilots forming APIA.
The events which followed in a later nameless year where others failed their fellow pilots continued the slide.
The inability of other pilot and employee groups to appreciate the situation ensured that the Race continues to this day.
Succinctly said.
Since then the question has been and now is, are pilots capable of overcoming their own selfishness to actually become unified as one again to fight a common enemy i.e. Airline Management?
DK