Originally Posted by ScaryKite

the companies are still in the mindset of years ago, where every pilot was just greatful to have a job. This is the first "pilot shortage" in a long while and its only going to get worse.
It will take them a while to figure something else out, and better work conditions and pay are on the last of their list.
You have to look at an airlines problems like a curable cancer, instead of coughing up some money for some good doctors and radiation therapy, they will try to cure it with band aids and aspirin that they can get at their local drug store for real cheap, and then when they are on the brink of death, they finally cry uncle and pay up. Its always been patch the problems instead of fix the big picture.