The ones that manage to get out of the Petri dish of all things Australian aviation can be some of the best work colleagues you'll ever share a flight deck with. On the other hand some, that whinge about how things are so much better in Oz can be an embarrassment.

After almost 6 years flying for Virgin in Oz, I got the distinct impression that while the Yanks may have invented flying, the Oztranaughts perfected it......����

Papoo, you've probably been with CX since sometime in the 2000's. Trust me, before that in the 70's, 80's and 90's the sentiment was very different.