Originally Posted by deltajuliet

I've asked many, many pilots about this and nobody ever had a satisfying answer. When and how did getting paid only for flight hours develop? Was it like that for the PanAm clipper pilots? The Northwest Orient Stratocruiser drivers? The Braniff guys? Was it after Deregulation. I'd love to know the history of how this came about, among many other things, so I know who to be annoyed at.