it is a great job, but it isn't that hard or that stressful, and management around the world realise this now and they're on to you - sorry.
Yeah and like many management wanabee types, you dont realise how wrong you are until you turn the TV on one morning and see a smoking hole in the ground with one of your companies tail fins sticking out of it.
It gives me no pleasure to write this but if you think good pilots are expensive, try having an accident.
Usually the same people would demonstrate their lack of business sense on a daily basis, yet they enjoyed the privileges of a position that rewarded them beyond their worth to the company
Pretty much like many of the directors/operating officers/commerce directors/another-inept-officious-titled suit I've seen pass through the industry over the last few years - sorry