Originally Posted by
tomgoodman
Obtaining and keeping a high-paying airline job has always been a long shot. The difference today is that low-paying airline jobs are plentiful, resulting in a lot of disgruntled pilots instead of disappointed non-pilots. It may sound worse now, because those who missed the brass ring in the past would just disappear into another career field, and not join a forum like APC (which didn't exist then anyway).
Great analysis.... I think that you are right. There are many more guys who are flying today (although at lower pay) that in the past would have never seen a cockpit. Look at the numbers of airline pilots in the US when the pay was supposedly really high----