This is not about snobbery and loco v legacy. This is about the right hand seat of airlines becoming another revenue seat. Not at a couple of small marginal operators but at the very core of the industry and in very large numbers. We all have to start somewhere and there have always been a number of low houred cadets in the right hand seat of UK airlines. The difference is that those cadets where selected in an extremelly competitive process on their ability to fly not on their ability to pay. Another difference is that the cadets represented a small proportion as they stayed with the airline and soon gained some experience but now they are continually replaced by more low houred cadets so the increased risk is sustained over time. Yet another difference is that the new pay to fly cadets do not have any employment protections hence they cannot call in sick, refuse a duty, etc they are so dependant on the system that their job as the last line of defence is compromised.