Poof in boots,
Sorry to spoil your little rant, flight crew are actually benchmarked to other airlines, facts can be obtained quite easily. For example an easyjet captain makes more than what you suggest. Surely you would argue you should earn more than easyjet cc, so does that not work for pilots?
The only ones that ar NOT benchmarked and are well above market rate are the more senior BA cc.
Pilots need to be paid the market rate, BA can no longer afford to subsidise their extravagant lifestyles.
So replace Pilots with CC and you would be talking sense