You are 100% correct with the anomalies and fur balls.
The point is really this. That's what Airline Pilots DO get paid with swings and roundabouts. Its skewed about 25-30% in AJ's favour (for his 'we are paid too much' argument) due the $AUD strength for example, but against Qf crew because of no school fee payments/rental assistance/power bills/confirms 1st Class travel etc - even a mate of mine in the sandpit a 'gardening allowance'.
Couple of points. Everyone is forgetting the sticker price for entry $100k now?? for the requisite licences, just to get to the Casino doorman to ask to be let in. And that money is UP FRONT boys and girls, NOT HECS..
and
"An extremely through knowledge of Australian and International Transport Law (every country you fly to or over) is more than mandatory."
Really? LMFAO!
Yes - really.
Swings and roundabouts and AGAIN - NOTHING to do with why this airline has fallen off a cliff in the last 5 years.