White Knight - good attempt at a recovery there, but nil points for going straight in and saying it's flight deck that wants respect! You have to earn that, laddie, and at the moment there are an awful lot of pilots out there who appear to think that they are the be-all and end-all of the airline business and couldn't give two hoots about their team-mates elsewhere; especially when it comes to pay!
The reality, as I have said many times before, is very simple. Pilots are simply aerial bus or truck drivers. Sure, they have to go through a lot more training to get there - but nowhere near as much as in some professions. In addition, although I think you'd all claim to be professionals, your working practices are distinctly blue collar.
Hence my prediction that this current situation will be used for a drastic reformation of payscales and working practices. No one so far has come up with any justification why pilots' - especially captains' - salaries should be considerably more than those of the majority of managers; and nor has anyone come up with any reason as to why there is such disparity between flight deck and senior cabin crew or licenced engineers.
The standard response, of course, is generally: "well, if we don't work the aircraft don't fly". Very true. However, you're forgetting that if the engineers don't sign off the aircraft you're not going anywhere either; and if the cabin crew (at least in the case of a pax airline) don't work then you're also going to be sitting there twiddling your thumbs.
Costs need to be cut - and those paid the most (including management) are the obvious targets.
Another area I'm convinced will have to change will be the seniority system which acts as handcuffs to the free movement of personnel and as such is bad for both crews and the company. At the end of the day, what does it actually mean anyway? If it was replaced with a promotion-on-merit and direct entry system, then the real effect is only going to be on seniority based bidding which could be replaced by randomised or rotational bids. Otherwise, you get paid for the job you're employed to do: FO, training FO, Captain, training captain, fleet manager; whatever.