The thing is that companies like the locos metioned here ruin the industry as do the people that are willing to accept substandard compensation for the job. It is funny how this seems to be a pilot only problem. Mechanics (Engineers) have their act together and today they get paid better than a 747 Captain, me that is.
Personally I could not give a rats hind part what I fly. I am interested in good T&C and time off that go's with it. I don't mind helping company out and going the extra mile, but I want to get something back for it.
I live in the hope that this economic crisis will clear the air and put the worst companies out of their misery and that there is light at the end of the tunnel. I am afraid that I am being naive and unrealistic. My feeling is that we will get screwed worse and it is our own "Shiny Jet Syndrome" that causes it. Us pilots are to blame in most part and thus we deserve the cr.ap that is dished out by companies using our own stupidity to their advantage.