CXchildlabour,
To get the same "level of income or RESPECT" you have to earn it. You just cant start from nothing, get your training paid for, and jump straight to a major airline and expect to be treated like someone else who spent decades building the required experience. Thats just ridiculous.
Cadets/LEP's would deserve the same pay if CX compensated every other pilot for their years of training, late night cargo flights, hauling trash around northern canada, the outback, or where ever.
To make it fair, all pilots would have to get a housing allowance, based or not. What makes you so special?