atm QF are struggling to recruit, bring on all this junk, at the end of the day they need more pilots, and what I have been hearing they are struggling to get them...
Unless one is still convinced of the 'Australian exceptionalism' and 'Straya' is different, this is a global structural shortage. Qantas will feel it last, but feel it they will.
MBA's drove unit cost down (reducing terms and conditions), prohibitive training costs meant people found another point to their existence spending money for other qualifications.
Have a read of Ryanair threads. O'Leary is the poster boy of Adversarial IR, there are books written on it. It contributed to making flying an unattractive career.
It is in Europe now, a shortage of pilots, and accelerating as demographics ensures a sizable chunk of senior pilot workforce retires.
It is in the US
Pilot shortage: 600,000 new pilots needed over the next 20 years - are pilotless planes the answer?
Is America's airline industry headed for a major pilot shortage? | Fox Business
With unlimited supply 'down' was the way airline management drove terms and conditions, employing teams of HR/IR to devise ways to do it. Contractors, regional affiliates and the occasional 'terminal decline'
Supply is not unlimited. O'Leary making an embarrassment of himself for without his much maligned pilots, he oversees nothing but a bunch of expensive ground exhibits.
Qantas IR know no other way, but over time they may need to realise globalisation works two ways.
I personally hope the work life balance is restored for pilots the world over.