Originally Posted by av8nallday

Everyone forgets how airline pilots used to be paid by the amount of seats they flew, I.e. why wide body pilots got paid an extreme amount. We currently fly a wide body amount of people so yes we have more responsibility and more at risk and that’s not even mentioning the fact of if something goes wrong and you have to make the decision to evacuate the plane you’re now in charge of properly maintaining a safe execution of more people getting off our crammed planes..