My plan would be to get pilots to hate their jobs. If they will not come to work unless they are making a fortune then wages and benefits will return.

Plumbers do not have this problem. Everyone knows that plumbing is a real job that demands real work. No one is going to crawl under your house to take a part your sewer line unless they were making a good living at it.

Whenever you have a profession that others enjoy as a hobby then you are at a competitive disadvantage. To ask congress to regulate the airline industry so that pilots could make more money is just as absurd as if ski instructors were to do the same.

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