'Twill be nice to see some operators shelling out the dollars the guys and girls deserve, and having to change their stingy ways...
The part that worries me is the decline in safety that might accompany the hiring of less experienced pilots than usual... nothing against newbies but you can't argue that experience is a great help in the kind of flying these guys and girls will do...
And yes, there has been a mass exodus from those (and more) operators over the last months... maybe now the people running these outfits will wake up and smell the coffee.... but as was said, it's too little too late. Losing those contracts is really going to hurt!!!
I just feel sorry for the people on the lower end of the pay scale who will feel it most, I couldn't care less about the Scrooges in management...