So the thousands of very professional UK pilots flying for EZY, Ryan, Baby, etc are "gullible and don't mind getting shafted"?
Yes, absolutely! The majority are young (20-30 year old) naive kids who will try to undermine any contract (seasonal commands...) and overbid any other pilot for hours/type ratings to get a job.
LoCo pilots must be the only ones that are actually
proud to work maximum hours, pay for type ratings and get no benefits, private health care or pension to speak of and yet they are actually gullible enough to believe they're working for a
career airline. They are even so gullible that they resist any positive momentum to change these mediocre T&C's for the better, firmly believing the propaganda that it will bankrupt the company. Hahaha!
So yes, gullible indeed!
What do you want to see? Communism? All airlines must pay the same exact salary, offer the same benefits and fly their crews the same amount of hours?
Remember that LoCo is the 'communism' of aviation, offering the same bland cattle style transportation product for the masses (read: proletariate!). Aeroflot was probably a LoCo avant la lettre so to speak, where passengers had to haul their own suitcases across a rainy/snowy tarmac and where one had to bring his own (eatable!) food for the flight. Ironic isn't it, how communism meets capitalism? That is of course: communism for the employees and customers, and capitalism (read: bonuses!) for the managers...
And you think you will, long term, get a decent salary package for offering such a product? Gullible!
What RYR, EZY and the other LoCos are trying to do is turn air travel into a commodity business. Base the price on supply and demand.
An unfortunate side effect from this is that crews are aslo being treated as a commodity by those airline
Spot on! Just like Mc Donald's. Economies of scale...