See I was thinking that Qantas could get away without new pilots, since they have cut back on services etc - that way they just reassign pilots they already have. But I have seen various other airlines predicting service to go back to full capacity by September (perhaps this is why Qantas has nominated September as their "review" date).
I also noticed that this time around they have added the NVFR (like mathewb has mensioned) as well as another "flight screening" stage for people who don't do so well on the cadet flight test.
Does anyone know why the two above have been added? Are they looking for more commercial cadets? What has been the ab-inito / commercial cadet ratio from past years?
Some interesting questions