Originally Posted by 89Pistons

Contrary to what you may believe, pilot pay has never sent an airline out of business. If an airline goes out of business, they were going out regardless of what they paid their pilots. At the same time, pilot pay has never saved an airline. Airlines pass and fail on bad fundamentals. Pilots could have worked for free at failed airlines and the outcome would have been the same. It may buy you an extra week. Now the airline will say pilot pay is the reason their airline is in trouble when in fact the real reason that airline may be in trouble is because their management didn't know what they were doing.