Originally Posted by
Hedley
This is a tough sell for any politician. We (pilots) are asking the American taxpayers to protect our 6 figure incomes until our services are needed again while countless others lose their life savings watching their family businesses and restaurants go bankrupt, putting far more people out of work. I don’t want to see airline employees on the streets, but why do we deserve government aid while the average citizen goes broke? You can only print so much money, and you can’t help everyone. Where does it end?
I'm sure I don't need to remind you, that there are more airline employees making far less than there are pilots. Several hundred thousand across the US in fact. If you want a transportation system on the other side, couple that with the infrastructure required to run an airline, this makes investment in the airlines almost mandatory. Pilots are a blip. We may benefit by the bailout, but we are not the emphasis.