Originally Posted by Mason32

They do it like everybody else did. You don't get it by accepting the top level jobs for bargain basement prices.... since the eventual result will be the loss of all top level pay at those jobs. You have some personal pride and fly CFI, military, 135, pipeline, whatever... There are tons of ways to fill a logbook without undercutting the profession because they want to play Airline Pilot for free.

What these kids are doing is like walking into the executive boardroom, addressing the Board of Directors, showing them their MBA from xyz school and then offering to do their job for 1/5 the total costs.... in hopes that fifty thousand more like them don't ruin the higher paying jobs that they want to apply for once they get their "experience."