Guvnor
Your summary of pay rates and comment makes no consideration for the time/money/effort/sacrifice that the men and women lucky enough to fly for a major US airline exert. (In fact 99% of prospective flight crews around the World suffer likewise.)
Even you should understand that we don't just "find" our licences in lucky boxes of Crackerjack (or Jamboree bags!).
It took me TEN YEARS to make it. During those TEN YEARS my friends earned real salaries, bought nice houses, drove nice cars (and didn't have to constantly troll the car park seeking a friendly soul for a jump start).
Add to this, the CAA and it's various "friends" took pretty much all the money I had.
In reality we're just playing "catch up".
Do you have ANY IDEA how many folks have to drop out of aviation because they simply can no longer afford to participate?
Talk about pushing a pea uphill with your nose!
Roy Keane can make $70,000 (rough conversion) a WEEK. Who am I to tell him he's overpaid?
Profit sharing is all well and good but you go ahead and name the top airline execs that you'd gamble YOUR life on. Short list isn't it? My airline has 11,500 of them (pilots) and you can count on EVERY ONE!
All markets support the expenses of the best providers in their industry, whether that's for surgery, financial advice, advertising, whatever.
Sorry you have your reasons NOT to be a crew member for the US majors. That's your choice, though.
Cheers,dd.