Originally Posted by HectorD

I am not out to start a flame war or anything but this has become a serious issue for present career pilots and future career pilots like myself.

I am not directing this to any of you but rather those who pay airlines to get hired (pay from training etc) and for those that accept wages that makes you just enough to be poor.

Please, I know times are tough but all you people are doing is making airlines think they can push us around with poor wages and making everybody else think becoming a pilot is a cake walk with the incredibly low minimums. I am sorry but someone with 500 hours TT is not a professional pilot no matter how professional that person might act. And yet, airlines hire these people because they can't argue, they take what they are given and deal with it to the best of their abilities which is not saying much because at 500TT you are still learning.

The only way to combat this, is by not taking those jobs. I know you are probably saying "but I need the time". Indeed but at the end of the day what do you wan't that time for? to be a pilot correct? all you are doing is devaluing the industry as a whole and letting even the bigger airlines take advantage of you. The airlines have us by the balls and I don't know about you, but its starting to hurt.