Originally Posted by
diple
Flight Attendants have little to lose. A FA could get similarly exhausting poor paying jobs elsewhere relatively easily.
Pilots are at the start of a long career where great expense has already been suffered and need to see it through to a point where they have built a career.
That's one way of putting it. Another, less flattering, way would be to liken pilots of most LCC operators to individual PLCs (not unlike their employment status), with a selfish agenda and a complete lack of foresight or interest in other PLCs.