HS's L - sadly, you're right! Nothing at all glamorous in the airline industry any more (apart from Concorde, of course!); not many 'total aviation people', too many bean counters, wretched low-life types 'larging it up' in the back of holiday charter airliners.....
Tales of what it was once like when even Manchesterr to Paris flights overnighted with a guaranteed aircrew/cabin crew party several times a week in Parisienne hotels - or so an ex-BEA Trident #1 told me - reminds me of what is now missing: fun and aviation before the last penny to shareholders or to pay the ludicrous inflated retainer to Admiral Lord Field Marshall for life of Big Airways.....
Plus we can always get shot of people we don't like in the grey funnel line.....not long ago a couple of squaddies caused trouble somewhere, so the local Plod chucked them into jail. Their RSM said "No problem - go without them. Their punishment will be to find their own way home - and to pay for it!!". That was from Western Canada to the UK........ Nice one!!