Originally Posted by Check Essential

That may be the most depressing post I've read in years.

We are in far more trouble than I ever imagined.
I guess it hadn't really hit me before, or I didn't want to believe it, but satchip's post opened my eyes. The company, the bankruptcy courts and the union have done their job. The expectations for what an airline pilot can expect from this career have been "reset".
We've lost the new generation. Maybe they got here to the majors at too young an age. Instead of comparing their compensation and lifestyle to doctors, lawyers and engineers they compare themselves to their buddies at Burger King. Praising the union for "reading the tea leaves" and realizing how much we were overpaid. That is just profoundly sad.

I shed a tear for this once great profession.