I wonder how the people who offer to "work for free" today will feel when they are replaced tomorrow by other idiots offering to "pay for work experience."
I do sympathise with people looking for their first job but you are undermining everyone elses position today and your own in the future.
Airlines today are generally run by beancounters - people who dont know one end of an aeroplane from another. We should be standing up to them, not encouraging them.