Interesting article about the pay at KLM versus other airlines... It is in dutch and behind a pay wall but it compares average income and production at KLM versus other flag carriers, LCC and middle east carriers. As it is on gross income it is not completely fair but still the image the KLM pilots create of themselves is similar to the primadonnas at AF.
What really hurts an airline like KLM is that the seniority system doesnt allow DEP and so although they have a pilot shortage and a training capacity issue they can only have new hires at the bottom of the list and have to retrain them... So any new hire that might be rated and up to their standards might have to do a new TR on a different "start" type and thus creating more of an issue from a training perspective...
https://www.telegraaf.nl/nieuws/2450...ken-aan-staken