Read not Judge
Dear Carruthers,
Directly replying to your post, Airlines exist because there are PROFESSIONAL PILOTS insuring the safety of their customers. If we did not exist nor would the airline. If you had read my post very carefully then you would have noted that i did not chastise airline companies for partaking in such practises. They are a business and will do anything to make a profit. My posts were aimed at upcoming young Professional pilots who can stop playing by the rules of these ridiculous companies and stop them from paying these fees. If no one pays, airlines will run out of applicants and then pilots. Which would then force them to rethink their hiring policies. So i am affraid you are replying to a subject you have very little knowledge about.
Pilots ARE professionals and that point is easily justified. You can not ask an individual from the street to jump in the flight deack of any aircraft and ask them to deliver 1 or 450 passengers from point A to B safely, if at all. This point is true of Lawyers, CEO's and management staff of any corporation all of who are considered professionals. No individual without proper training or experience would be able to competently do their job, thus the people possessing such skills in these positions are consider professionals.
ALL pilots are professionals and thus desire the respect which is due to them. So dear carruthers next time you are on board an aircraft, make the realisation that the individuals in control of that flight (the professional flight crew) have your life in their hands, so a little respect is what they command from you.
Cheers,
AC100.