Dr Pepz, you have highlighted a concern that has been voiced since the mid-90's: too many employees per aeroplane, per RPK, per RTK. What isn't apparent is the management overhead. QF labour under an almost 2:1 employee:supervisory overhead (including supervisors, managers, executives etc). Most of us are adults with acceptable reading comprehension.
Another factor not evident in the bare numbers is the revenue per RPK. Yield management is a fruitless exercise as long as Qantas weakens the market with a huge low-fare competitor. The idealogical Jetstar experiment is cannibalising yields to the detriment of the group as a whole. As predicted and observed everywhere else a legacy carrier hosted a LCC.
QF will have to trim staff per aeroplane down to industry standards. It is long overdue. Actual front line staff numbers have been stagnant or falling...administrative and management numbers on the other hand have been growing. The fleet is diminishing, staff numbers relatively stable.
Both of those mistakes are of the executive and board.