a lot depends on how grateful you are to be employed. former ansett employees may be bitter as they were paid unsustainable salaries , was good while it lasted, but in the end it hurt the bottom line and the rest is history.
myself included, most people employed in aviation are grateful of the fact that they have a job in such a volatile industry where staff cutbacks, redundancies and carriers going broke are unfortunately common occurrences. I would rather work for a profitable airline at a reasonable though not "over the top" wage and feel secure about my job than not be employed in the industry i love at all.
