Originally Posted by MaxQ

a) there would be a HUGE drop in the number of employed pilots, and others. Smaller aircraft simply will not support, without completely redoing the current airline business model, the increase benefits...retirement,B fund, etc. Don't forget that every single person at the mainline that is involved in these aircraft is also paid more with higher benefits. The flying would simply go away, along with the attached jobs. I won't even get into the reduced service to the countries cities and the resultant economic dominos.
b) From where does anyone think this extra money will be drawn from? Exec pay and bonuses? Hedge fund and other stock holders in the form of reduced profits or stock buyback programs? Reduced dividends? No, they will come out of the lives of the employees who make any airline run. There would be more outsourcing, layoffs, reduced pay/benefits etc. Then we could sit in our cockpits and ***** about how poor the ramp is. Ladies and gentlemen, there is a correlation.