Originally Posted by milky

A success at bringing the cost of aviation down and raising our standard of living as a country. As a pilot, the success of the market has brought down wages because of competition. It turns out that pilots will fly for a lot less money than pilots enjoyed in previous decades. If you are currently a pilot that started out in the last 10-20 years as a CFI/regional pilot, you probably contributed to that lowering of wages. But, now that you 'made' it, you want to have it the way it was before. You just don't get that before, you would probably not have gotten a job at a major airline. You almost exclusively had to be a military pilot or spend decades grinding it out to even have a chance at a major airline job.