I cannot find anywhere in reliable sources as opposed to assertions that Qantas is in any way attempting to reduce their pilots pay.
Refusing to accept "Qantas pilots flying Qantas planes" (what has been called the job security clause) & therefore protect the offshoring of pilot jobs that has already begun, and then the same breath say that QF need to reduce costs, is just another way of saying that they want to reduce pilot salaries. Why else would they be disclosing how much pilots earn & why else would they be factoring in staff travel & other benefits, using questionable costings, to say that pilots are after an almost 30% increase, unless they want to keep downward pressure on pilot salaries & justify their assertion that they need to offshore jobs in order to cut costs?
However, I believe that the main thrust here is to get rid of as many of the pilot body as possible, along with anybody else they can offshore & their EBA's with them. This is so they can get around Australian labor laws, CASA regulation & the Australian taxation system as much as possible. Flight & duty times, reduced taxation, little or no redundancy provisions, along with many other factors, go hand in hand with overall direct cost reductions (salaries, etc), in the never ending quest for greater & greater profits.