I have regularly spoken to the press. I believe everyone should and hang the cost - the airline is being killed anyway. Generally (depending on my mood with the stupid things said) the result has been very good. I find it hard to argue with idiots who point blank say 'union wages are the problem', but have honed my answer to the 'well, of my course of 8, 4 are actually earning more flying overseas and I have lost count of the number of fantastic Australian Engineers that greet aircraft in any number of overseas ports - all discarded by Qantas'. Once I got 'But thats just not true!' - I could only respond 'You're a journalist, I have spent 25 years of my life flying heavy jets around the world, could it possibly be I might know a bit more about it'.
Guerrilla media techniques are the only way to get a voice heard - part of why I started posting here, anyone can read it.
If there is no other story to print, then AJ's word is the only one heard.