I appreciate your response.
However, the meat of this thread is the conditions under which many Captains and First Officers have to work in today's - cut-throat - low cost airline environment.
No-one has said - certainly not me - that airline travel should be discontinued. Only that it should be properly priced and therefore able to pay it's people what they are worth and treat them accordingly.
Many people live permanently outside of their home country or travel internationally for employment and are far more likely to need emergency travel, particularly those in the Third World who might have to be medevaced to a country with decent medical facilities.
Yes. I'm one of them.