Originally Posted by
Goingupinverted
Heard this a thousand times, I have no empathy. Those who worked for $22hr as a pilot deserved exactly what they got paid. If pilots wouldn’t sell their souls to fly a shiny jet we wouldn’t have such absurdity. $22 an hour is why I avoided the airlines all together and went military first.
No one is asking for empathy. It’s just a fact. The jets weren’t and still aren’t shiny. Many people hopped on the bandwagon of being an airline pilot without understanding the risks of the career involved.