Salary and benefits benchmarked against regional competitors?
You keep banging on about "regional" competitors. How about
actual competitors. Let's say, CX and EK, just to pluck two. Two who
do pay QF rates of pay for pilots, and who are making squillions. Just as Qantas did, whilst paying those salaries, until certain idealists tried to make the world fit
their opinion/reality.
What has changed that has negatively impacted Qantas' profitability is the direction and management of the company. Not pay rates. I'm sorry if that doesn't fit with your
reality.