“The Professor: Since you are obviously management, how about reducing management costs to those of competitors? No?”
Ha, well actually I am way too retired to be “management”. Just a fly fisherman now.
And I have never worked for QF.
But contrary to the opinion of most pilots, the cost of middle to senior level execs is nowhere near as high as you think. MOST execs would love the pay and benefits of an A380 captain and trimming their relatively small numbers or salary would not alter the bottom line much at all.
Placing the remaining 33000 employees of the company on par with the wider industry would achieve a lot though.