The other thing that annoys me is QF management, the press & even some of the posters here, crapping on about pilot salaries.
Forget about the individual salaries for a minute & take a look at the cost impact on ticket prices. As Barry Jackson pointed out in his interview, pilot costs are about 2% to 4%. So if you take a $4,000 international ticket for example & use the higher figure of 4%, the cost of both the captain & first officer in that ticket is just $160. Using a 50% savings on pilots salaries (and they are not going to get anywhere near that by offshoring or anything else), saves a mere $80 on that ticket!
Putting the individual salaries out there, along with quoting the highest salary they can get away with, is a smokescreen to hoodwink the public, the politicians & the press into believing that pilot salaries are a major factor in the cost issues the company claims it is having.