Originally Posted by SAABaroowski

I know we all "love" to fly, but some of you guys are forgetting that without pilots, the airplanes don't move. Some of you guys have an attitude that we should just be happy that we have a job, and we are so very lucky to be allowed to fly commercial jet for a living. We are the ones moving the airplane from A-B safely, not management. You take away top management and an airline can still run (for the most part the past 6 years the only thing management has done is run airlines into the ground), you take away the pilots, and the airplane sits on the ramp. We need to start realizing our worth and make it known to everyone, from the once a year traveler to the CEO's running our airlines, that we are professionals and we have a skill that is required to fly an airplane, that we all worked very hard to get. We aren't "lucky" that we are airline pilots, we busted our marbles and sacrificed a lot to get here, time for management to pay up, and the only way we are going to get our money back, as well as the respect that we deserve is to not ask for it, but demand it.
-Joe