The derogatory sexist comments towards this persons professionalism simply highlight how stuck in the fifties airline pilots really are.
Are we talking about the same person? This a member of the the team that spends its days belittling those same pilots in the corridors of Parliament house.
She is a communications
PR specialist. How did all those leaks to the media painting about the pilots in a poor light occur? These would be likely be sanctioned at the top level of Group Communications. Tipping the dirt & muckraking against your opponents is a specialty of this field.
Olivia Wirth even admitted shopping a dirt file around in Canberra:
Sometimes Wirth's strategy can blow up in her face. Last year, Qantas was furious about the United Arab Emirates-based airline Etihad being allowed to invest in Qantas' local competitor, Virgin Australia. Wirth's team distributed dirt sheets in Canberra about the UAE, criticising its record on democracy and human rights, among other things. But then Qantas unexpectedly struck an alliance deal with Emirates, also from the UAE. Overnight, the dirt sheets vanished and Wirth went back to Canberra to tell those same politicians why the UAE was now a wonderful place. "We had to go back to the drawing board," she admits sheepishly. "I guess you've got to be careful you don't become too cute."
Olivia Wirth is Qantas's high flyer
So please, enough with the crocodile tears for Wirth. She's a big girl playing a tough game.