In the mean time Jetstar has just sent an email out to staff advertising 36 commands and the need for 261 pilots over the next 9 month due to massive expansion.
Bruce Buchanan has also been blabbing away to tech crew on a recent jump seat ride explaining that Qantas long haul was unsustainable and will be gone in a few years.
It could be just the managements little cunning plan to get it out there but I do seem to remember Ansett telling all their staff the same thing just before it went tits up and everyone saying "don't worry it's just scare tactics from management!"
30 odd thousand employees will be hoping it is a bluff from management, me included!