So im sitting here as a 19 year old reading all this, WANTING to be a pilot. It sounds like after I get out of the service, if I want to make any money being a pilot, I need to go overseas. I'm just curious as to why that is? Are there no Low cost airlines like Southwest over there, so they all still pay high wages or wat? It sounds like what is going to happen to me, is all the airlines are sooner or later going to be like Southwest (low cost everything). Right now people are loosing there jobs, and taking what they can get at other airlines (jet blue, southwest ect.) When every one is fighting just to HAVE a job, no one is going to be willing to put it on hold and demand for better pay. So ne ways once all the airlines conform to the new way of running things, pilots will all have stable jobs and that is when the unions will finally be able to kick in. If my guess on what is going to happen is correct, i hope it happens in the next 6 years while I am in the service training.