It is true QANTAS pilots do a speech to make the travelling public aware of the situation at QANTAS and the direction the company is going.
On my last flight to Brisbane everyone on board cheered for support.
But we are only being paid up to half a million bucks a year to do it."
You have to realise, very few pilots at Qantas earn close to that. The ones that do are usually management pilots. A normal line captain on the A380 would make $380k max and if you compared that to an Emirates captain with all the allowances and tax free salary they get it works out the same. 737 pilots at Qantas earn the same as Virgin Australia 737 pilots so its not like they are being overpaid like some people claim.
It is disgusting the way Qantas management are running the place and the way they have planned for the 787 to be crewed by Singapore based pilots on most likely half the wages, flying Australian routes. All the QF pilots on the 744's and 767's will end up out of job because of this.
This website summarises what is really going on as the media seem to get the facts wrong.
Qantas Pilots