I think we ought to lay off Mr Thomas. He's a pretty cluey bloke - after all, he knows stuff about QF pilots' T&Cs that no QF pilot knows. Stuff that doesn't even appear in the Determination (I just tried a word search on 'vegetables' and drew a blank), so that's seriously deep knowledge there. It's just a shame that this didn't come out earlier, or we mightn't be in such dire straits now. I can only shudder at the damage caused by nigh-on 50 years of unfettered Vegetable-Eating by greedy pilots. Still, it may not be too late - if we can stop fretting about Alan's minor strategic missteps and instead concentrate on conserving his precious Vegetables, we may save Qantas yet.