Professor
Such is the inflexibility of Australian labor!
The problem here is not the labor, but the management of said labor.
These surpluses are not created by pilots.
When you have management that hire additional crews to fly existing aircraft due to your ideology's, and thus create surpluses, it's a bit rich to blame the pilots.
Alternatively, you could utilise existing crews. That would require management who are able to work with employees, as opposed to against. Imagine the IR consultant fees you would save, in addition to the extra wages of surplus pilots.
Jetstar wages may seem cheap, however they are expensive to the group when you are effectively paying a QF pilot in surplus.
Qantas is lucky that they have pilots who were willing to go on LWOP & move their families all over the planet to save them having to make pilots redundant. That's the definition of a flexible employee!!