Rainboe,
Don't bother trying to put my opinion down. You are nothing but an old time "boy done good" who's only on here because he's drawing some sugar soaked and unbelievably (unaffordable) pension from BA, or wherever it was that you worked.
The money's crap for a LGW Command on a modern and complicated jet like an A320, and you know it. So, don't bother trying to justify downward trends and "worse than 1973" recessions. You don't know that for a fact. No one does. We will find out if it is worse or not when it's over. You are no economist. In fact, all you are is a bit of a blow off merchant who needs to get out and spends his Airways Pension Scheme.
The way you carry on it almost makes me wonder if you're a Director of Astraeus. But then I realised you aren't that smart.
Stop talking down the industry that you've benefited from.
Stan
p.s. I have worked in the UK all my life. I know the score.