Guv: "...seat on the board.."
"...sharing of info..."
that's exactly what the Delta guys wanted over the last decade, but DL management would do anything to avoid it. Just didn't want to share any info in their "club", I suppose.
Everybody keeps mentioning the $300k pilots, but they make up a small % of the total at the Majors. It's really quite wrong to use that figure - you should use average pay for the carrier or salary cost/seat mile ( not total cost/asm ), for comparisons.
Funny, the % of management earning $300k-plus stock options is never mentioned, Guv; why is that???
As a Brit, I think a lot of the attitude comes from the Military ethics of "come on chaps, just put up with it and stop whingeing". It's why the RAF has such pi$$-poor managers and we make-do with sub-standard equipment. "Didn't happen during the Blitz, old chap" - good mentality at the right time, this is not it....