But, increasingly, people have little sympathy for the lot of them as they create their own mess. It is the spread of the disease to other other airlines that is the real problem.
This is the reality...well said ATSE...RYR management are the most cunning of the lot of them - like someone else said, united we stand, divided we fall. Create a web of deceit and confusion regarding pay scales in each base in isolation and you'll be changing your name to MOL before you know it...
As for 200hr SSTR guys and other operators following suit...monkey see, monkey do...and there's a lot of monkeys out there it seems!