Pilot shortage to get worse.

[markis10]

QF Pilots may be highly paid according to their employer, but there is a shortage, long term this is not going to bode well for QF if they let go staff that cannot be replaced when needed:

The Asia/Pacific region will require hundreds of thousands of new commercial airline pilots and technicians over the next 20 years to support airline fleet modernization and the rapid growth of air travel, according to Boeing’s 2011 Pilot & Technician Outlook released Monday. The report called for 182,300 new pilots and 247,400 new technicians in the Asia/Pacific region through 2030.
The greatest need is in China, which will require 72,700 pilots and 108,300 technicians over the next 20 years, said Boeing Training & Flight Services CCO Roei Ganzarski.
“The demand for aviation personnel is evident today. In Asia we’re already beginning to see some delays and operational disruptions due to a shortage of pilots,” Ganzarski said.

Boeing 20-year forecast: Asia/Pacific will need more than 400,000 pilots, technicians | ATWOnline

 

[Justchecking]

Yes, but it's a pilots shortage in Asia which is significant for one reason - not every Australian pilot wants to uproot their family and move to Asia. Sure some will but there's a large percentage who for various reasons want a job in their own country. There's the small matter of education, health care, tax, quality of lifeand basic safety of the country in which you are residing that determines the decision to move cross continents. Living in a country in which you are not native to the culture nor speak the language poses two likely lifestyles....

Spend years learning the language, never being
quite fluent, and trying to learn the ways of the lo
cals as a means of gaining acceptance. Knowing
all the while that you will be forever an outsider owing to your genetic makeup.

Live a cloistered life among a small ex-pat community, never really coming to terms with your newfound place of residence and living for the day wh
en you finally get to go home.

Many people struggle to come to grips with moving from one town to another in their own country and that poses no cultural differences at all.

 

[markis10]

Yes, but it's a pilots shortage in Asia which is significant for one reason -.

No, its a pilots shortage in Asia Pacific, which includes Australia, and while your points are valid they only explain why Asian airlines have Australian Pilot Bases, not the shortage as such, which is evident in the push by some Australian airlines to lower minimums for FOs in terms of hours etc.

Note the forecast aircraft growth alone is higher than the world average in Oceania: