Originally Posted by
midnight cruiser
Hardly likely IMO. That might attract the Instagram dreamers for a few years, but no-one would stick with the career long term at significantly lower wages than we have now. The job is much more disruptive to home life than driving a train or most jobs, training is self funded to the tune of €150k, and there's a greater potential for a screw-up to cost hundreds of lives... and actually there is more natural strength for industrial action, because grounding airliners costs millions.
Wishful thinking. A captain salary of £60k is still be way above the national average salary. Wannabes would still be queueing out the door to pay £120k to train.