Not wishing to sound like an inverted snob or anything, but perhaps historically we have gotten used to being treated somewhat differently to our fixed wing brothers ?
We generally get paid less, are treated worse and in the "oil patch" we have been ground down salary and condition wise to the very bone by the oil companies. As soon as BALPA got working agreements (and decent salaries for pilots) with the two big North Sea operators they priced themselves almost out of the market, a contributory factor in the resurrection of Bond.
So maybe we are just used to being treated a certain way and over time we have adjusted.
Just a thought
