Originally Posted by groovinaviator

... the media would love to blow that one out of proportion... the media's deception could actually do us some good this time. You should submit a carefully drafted letter along with it explaining the inside of being a pilot and maybe we could actually get some public support, because let's face no one would want to be flown around in an airliner if they actually knew how much the newhire in the rightseat actually made and what the QOL really was... it's a far stretch from the romanticized lifestyle that most people still believe exsists in the airlines.