Be kind Pass a Frozo he did say he was doing a aviation degree, not a finance one
However the option in the future looks like either raising airfares by a few dollars or parking your aircraft against the fence. I'm sure that is going to cost you a hellava lot more money than a airfare increase.
The other factor to consider here is that in the last 10 years real salaries have gone absolutely nowhere in aviation and the cost of training has doubled.
As said before, airline executives have absolutely no one else to blame for a pilot shortage other than themselves, when I started flying the supply of pilots was absolutely ridiculous, you needed 1000's of hours just to fly a chieftan. Regionals wouldn't take a resume unless you had 2000 hours+
To go from that to where we are today is a pretty sad state of affairs. If they had managed their pilot supply a bit better you wouldn't have the debacle that has now resulted.