Mind you, he is right you know.
But the problem is that all pilots, one way or another, prostitute themselves for their trade!
Pilots are so individual and disparate that I am not at all sure that flying aeroplanes merits description as a profession. It's more a trade, composed of many different practitioners, each contributing his own skill but with no ethos or ethic for the common good.
Pilots simply do not possess the quality of collective enterprise. Thus one cannot entirely blame the people who provide the flying job for taking merciless advantage of what some might describe as a collective character flaw of monstrous proportions.
Bye the bye, the writer is a professional pilot of ancient years whose comments, whilst not meant in any way to be insulting to others, are probably a reflection of reality.
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