Originally Posted by
ImSoSuss
The workforce as a whole has changed. And no, we are not Blue Collar but the lines between the two aren't necessarily black and white anymore like it was in the past. But glad some geezer who wrote a book 50 years ago is telling us different.
We’re no less labor/blue collar than those who flew the line 50 years ago. In fact, 50 years ago airline deregulation had yet to occur and airline pilots enjoyed a relatively lofty existence in public perception. The 80s taught our profession painful lessons, a comeuppance. But please keep your head in the sand (and your head up a dark cavity) and believe you enjoy wages and working conditions commensurate with your gifts to aviation, rather than the hard work and solidarity of your fellow pilots and their predecessors. With any luck your contemporaries won’t be as foolish and disrespectful.