You may be right although I'm not sure what income tax has to do with it!? Same same for self-funded Salary Sacrifice cars and laptops; most QF staff do
not get the Executive perks for cars etc!
But were you going to talk about the EK:
- limos to/from work,
- subsidised housing,
- subsidised school fees,
- subsidised health care,
- subsidised annual travel back "home",
- faster promotion to command dollars, and
- provident fund if there is one (I'm not sure about that one)
Even EK's Aust Regional manager, in the Fin Review last year, contested QF's hysterical and inaccurate pilot pay comparisons.
Apples with apples and all that... It needs more than a couple of throw-away lines. Just sayin'.