Originally Posted by Lab Rat

To their credit there is not a huge surplus of CEO wannabes coming out of business executive mills who are willing to do the job for free because of shiny-desk syndrome. The reason they make the money they do is because they can.

Remember, it wasn't too long ago that many in this industry wanted to be "airline pilots" so bad that they were willing to PAY for their jobs. That attitude has not changed much over the last 15 years or so.

In business school they teach you how to manage a business and make a profit, not to pay your employees huge sums of money because they think they are entitled to it.

We're pilots and we absolutely get what we can successfully negotiate - no more, no less. It's not anyone else's fault that there is no shortage of pilots willing to take a lot of jobs for almost no pay because they still confuse a hobby for a job.