Originally Posted by
BIG MACH
It is the fare paying passenger who decides what we should be paid.
Passengers buy on quality and price, just like pilots do when buying their cars or computers. If you prefer the command economy, where wages and prices are decided by committees, the old Soviet system had the answer. It also brought poverty. The economic stupidity of so-called intelligent pilots continues to amaze me.
So, do we adjust compensation weekly when fares change?
Compensation is negotiated. It has nothing to do with simple concepts like 'fairness' or other popular but meaningless sentiments. Does anyone think a CEO is paid by how much the passengers pay?
Second, it is price, price, price followed in a distant position by quality.
And what is a 'so-called intelligent' pilot?