I am with Bryris, I think the passengers think highly of pilots. I also believe they think we are paid really well. Most of them have no clue how the pay scale works and how long it takes pilots to actually earn a salary they can support a family on. I think if we want to change the compensation, then we have to learn how to be better at negotiating our worth. Does the company feel that getting the plane to the destination is only worth a little over 1300 dollars. If that's how they feel than as pilots we either have to accept that and take it, or we can do something about it. When we do nothing it just says we are okay with the current way things are done.