Originally Posted by Electra

That is not the implication behind my posts at all. I ought to know how hard FO's work, I did it for more than 6 years. My point was rather that it is an oversimplification to say that the captain is paid more by luck of seniority rather than for weight of responsibilities. And that I fly with a lot of FO's who have adopted the attitude that since they aren't paid as much as they think they should be that they are going to do the bare minimum they can get away with. That is all.