Who is the author? Where are the research notes and notations that derive your figures...
I could write the same drivel and pass it off as gospel too.
I would have thought there was a more interesting statement in there, how abot this one:
According to Virgin Blue figures the airline will carry more passengers than Ansett on major Australian domestic truck routes for the year ending 31 March 2004, with only a third of the staff. The two airlines' RPM/RPK figures are almost identical, however Virgin Blue only has 3,300 staff compared with the 10,000 staff that Ansett employed for its domestic trunk route division.
So The hact is the aircraft NEEDS pilots and cabin crew and engineers and ground crew. It doesn't need the 300% higher staff numbers that Ansett and now Qantas employ. Hmmmm I wonder where these additional jobs can be cut? We need pilots etc or the plane can't fly... Oh I know it's the leeches of management, consulting and any other fictispus job to get me mate working next to me. How about Qantas increase productivity and effeciencies by making VR for management - oh that's right their severances and golden handshakes would sink the company alone.
Cut the bull!!!!e this is not a problem caused by crew!!