Zapatas....
I just reviewed your posting history, and you seem to have an uncanny bent against Qantas pilots. You unerringly dispute that they are the best in the world (whether they are implied to be or not, is not mine to say...), you dispute that they are remunerated appropriately, etc.
Just wondering - why is this so? Care to explain? What is it about the rat that p1sses you off so much?
I ask this because your statement:
MOST Asian carriers you compete against would cream you in the battle of the low cockpit costs.
is quite obvious. No-one would dispute this.
But their standard of training is WAY less than ours (I've attempted to train them - a difficult job which is why I say I've tried). Their cost of living is WAY less than ours. Their reputation is WAY less than ours. There is nothing racist in what I'm saying. It is fact. Don't like it? I really don't care.
So I take exception when you divert a discussion with what really is a red herring.