This thread has probably run its course as the original premise of Alan Joyce being unhappy that foreign airlines are manipulating the local market via subsidies to fund a domestic fare war, has now become a dreary attack from the QF haters on the wages and conditions of the staff.
It's been done to death and doesn't address the original issue. I stated, thousands of posts ago, that the real reason for Joyce's outburst was that he was within an ace of driving VA into the ground, much like QF did to AN about 13 years ago. I recall pilots recounting a conversation with Dixon, where stated that his accountants told him, to the week, when AN would go broke.
Joyce released a statement yesterday which contained thus paragraph:
Fourth, Qantas is not afraid to make the hard decisions to succeed. In the competitive fight with Virgin we were winning until very recently when, using its artificial new structure, Virgin raised hundreds of millions of dollars from its foreign owners to shore up its loss-making strategy.
Can we drop the nickle and dime analogies here? The respective a managements involved are in a slug fest that is going to reshape the entire local scene. Try to see the big picture instead if indulging in petty grievances.