"the excellent video on youtube"???
It was bloody awful. And large parts of it total rubbish. It is a sad day if that video passes for campaigning... It was a load of whingeing claptrap with a bad soundtrack. Only 45k a year? Boo-frickety-hoo.... I'm sick of people going on about this. WE ARE ALL VOLUNTEERS. Not only that, we have brought this upon ourselves... The facts are:
Many people want to be pilots;
They are so desperate to achieve this dream, they are prepared to pay to train;
Airlines previously did not realise this;
Now they do.
The only surprising thing about the situation is that they didn't wake up and smell the coffee earlier. Like about 20 years earlier.
I really take issue with this whole "pay to fly" business. Almost all airlines make you pay to fly. I work for RYR and I earn 2 to 3 times that of people in the equivalent job flying a TP for Flybe. Nothing wrong with a TP - just as responsible a job and just as satisfying. But who is really paying to fly? Not me, I'm pretty sure of that.
"Mark my words" - I've marked them alright. Nothing will change.