Miserable wages
I know of plenty pilots who fly 'heavy metal' at places like Emirates or Cathay, they too 'winge' terribly about how they are treated. However, the one very big difference between an AirLink driver and those guys is, when they get to the end of the month their contorted faces relax for a moment as they open their pay slips!
I remain curious as to why so many aviation companies, not all, decide (and it must be a deliberate decision) to treat their pilots so badly? Do you think they make more money by treating their pilots so badly? Does anyone have input? Anyone other than desk-jockeys posing as pilots that is.....