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?
The pilots are only a tiny drop in the bucket. The optics and politics are all about the vast majority of airline employees who are relatively low income (and heavily unionized). The party that favors unions cannot simply cut out the pilot unions because they make too much... kind of defeats the whole point of unions if you get punished for success by the party which advocates for unions... especially since pilot unions do tend to endorse said party.