Some interesting quotes from this Herald Sun Article, I wonder what the unions will have to say:
Joyce looks to the future with optimism | Herald Sun
"The issue is not pay, the biggest issue is the efficiencies we get out of the pilots is only about 480 hours a year - that's interesting work," he notes.
Mr Joyce says if Qantas pilot salaries had to be paid to Jetstar Asia, where there's no shortage of applicants to be captains on $200,000 a year, it would make it uncompetitive, with no jobs for anyone.
He compares aircraft to cars, perhaps thinking of his own first car, a Datsun Cherry, which continually broke down unless he kept changing the oil, topping up the water and paying mechanics to fix it.
Now, cars are far more reliable, computerised to help mechanics. Mr Joyce argues modern aircraft are the same.
It argues the traditional "walk around" by a licensed engineer, a multi-point sight check on each aircraft after each flight, is no longer needed for at least half its fleet.