"Smoke and mirrors" is exactly what has been happening at Qantas for years!!!! All the hype of the 787 coming to Qantas.....replacing a 450 seat aircraft with a 236 seat aircraft!! Announcing hiring 170 new pilots over the next 3 years and at the same time the chief pilot saying that 50 pilots a year will retire for the next few years adds up to really less than a net gain of 7 pilots a year!!! It is the incredible shrinking airline!!!!!! New routes mean a lot more new aircraft than they currently have and replacing a jumbo with a 787 really requires 3 extra departures per day if you want to provide enough seats to cover the existing and then some room for passenger growth!!! Wake up to the facts..."the incredible shrinking airline"...."smoke and mirrors"!!!!!