Dani, that's a fairly feeble response. His job wasn't to manage the company but to fly a plane, for which he was paid the going rate at the time. His t&C included a pension plan on which he planned his retirement, just as most of us do. Had he gone to his employer and said that he would work for half so that the company had a long term future it would probably have been spent on management bonuses for achieving such great cost savings!
I can certainly understand his bitterness at having the rug pulled out from under his feet and he is just as entitled to feel that bitterness as the guy who was loading his plane with bags...