Dear Richard Kranium (and his admirers)
Can you, just for a few minutes focus on the good news that
VB exists at all...that it has given hundreds of people jobs (not just pilots but a lot of honest folks who wil NEVER earn what a young F/O does) and that it is growing fast and by building the travel market, creating left and right seat jobs that just wouldn't exist if the QF juggernaut continued unchallenged.
I don't fly for them and never will...but I sometimes fly on them and love it.
Remember, TAA was started by "mates" and they built a great airline...only to see it destroyed by those who would let hatred and spleen get in the way of sound professionalism. If you're not wishing an ulcer (or worse) on yourself, get some positive thinking into that Kranium and take some time to smell the roses.
We in the aviation world are all better off for
VB's presence and if it only gets a C+ for recruitment practices well then that can only get better. There was a time I recall when the only assets needed to get a job in Australia were that you WERE NOT a member of the AFAP and had a thick skin.
Things sure have improved.