the catastrophe that's about to unfold for possibly hundreds of QF pilots.
Redundancy has been a fact of life for ground staff for nigh on a decade. Up until now, pilots have been a protected specie. Some will argue that's been justified but when the day of reckoning arrives, it's called a catastrophe. Really? It is time to face reality, tough as it might be, and understand that redundancy is nothing new and faced by thousands of others who would inevitably have been in a much more parlous financial state than any Qantas pilot. 