“Why should the QF salaries be the aspirational minimum?”
Because QF conditions are way above the average “basket” of conditions within the region for similar job roles. A startup carrier like VOZ is never going to benchmark conditions against an incumbent like QF.
You'd have made an awesome high-jumper, what with the bar sitting on the ground and all.
I am off to have a beer with a US based 747 cargo captain. He earns about $100,000 USD. I guess I am buying.
So what's your point? should an American on low wages be the benchmark that we aspire to?
Why stop there? Lets find some other tenuous link. I'm sure there are rickshaw drivers in Bangladesh earning less than a US dollar a day.