The major airlines haven't had to deal with market forces impacting pilot wages in any real way, and that's due to the non-portability of our labor due to the union seniority system. In most other skilled professions, one can switch companies and be compensated based on experience. Thus, the major airlines haven't been forced to adjust wages to keep around their best and most experienced pilots. Pilots at the regionals have been hamstrung from leaving for better employers due to being forced to start over at first year pay. Market forces have not been in play to eliminate failing businesses that treat their employees poorly. Couple that with antiquated bankruptcy and union laws, and the airlines haven't had to deal with true market forces in a long time.

You CLEARLY haven't read Atlas Shrugged, or if you have you didn't comprehend it. One of Ayn Rand's primary philosophies was that NO ONE should work for free, be a slave to any other man, and should be compensated fairly for their labor. In the book, the protagonist Dagny Taggert does everything in her power to REWARD her best employees, treat them well, and promote them. The airlines, and corporate America as a whole, have forgotten that the employees ARE the company.

If you're going to malign something, I suggest you know what the hell you're talking about first, rather then regurgitating some tired liberal propaganda that you were fed.