There are way too many pilots, planes, and airlines these days. GL flys absolutely ridiculous routes, I don't care if it's bottom-pay EAS routes or not. So many redundant routes and airplanes that being an airline pilot has become a fairly poor career route, because there is way too little demand and too much supply. While I don't want anyone to lose jobs, fewer airlines and planes is the only way I see it improving, otherwise the airlines will always be able to find the "lowest bidder" pilots to fill their ranks. Ticket prices are crazy low and costs are crazy high for fuel, maint, planes, etc. Every airline either barely scrapes by or gets undersold by the next guy to pop up. Unless some of them die off, the industry won't get any better. At some point we decided that having jobs was more important than having good jobs. I'm not going to argue against or for that, but I am going to say at that point we had no leverage against anything, given RLA and how the industry works.