QANTAS will resume recruitment shortly as they have an aging pilot body. Many retirements and promotion will be expected, but complexities could arise with people on exchange from Jetstar or on leave-of-absence returning. The salary that they offer is the best in the region and this will attract many candidates from other carries who will be happy to enter at Second Officer level.
Virgin will recruit to replace those junior pilots who leave for Qantas. This will create opportunities as a SO on the B777 and FO position on the ATR 72. The captains at virgin are mostly quite young and the expected time to command would be about 15 years. There are some 600+ FOs and SOs at Virginaustralia at maybe 30 command per year...do the math.