I'm not even a QF pilot but my blood boils reading not only that article but most of the comments. If that's representative of what most Australian's think, you're kidding yourselves if you think you've got the public onside.
Why aren't these claims being countered? Sure, theres some obscure attempts by the qantaspilots website, but people need to go out of their way to see these.
Surely AIPA can step up its media campaign, especially in the mainstream media. Full page newspaper advertisements, radio ads, TV ads, things that are in people's face and they can't ignore. Surely the cost of doing these things outweigh's the cost of not doing it!!