Teresa, LCC do not have to mean low wages. Have you studied a little LCC airline called Southwest? Do they pay the lowest wages in the industry?
I suggest you get hold of a copy of
Nuts. I literally could not finish it, out of sheer disgust with gross stupidity of management (slash & burn) & the contempt with the treatment of employee's compared to the way it could be done.
Read through the customer reviews from the link, once you have done that, please return and tell us about how the gravy train has left the station for your 3 sprogs and the rest of us.
It doesn't have to be this way, that is the truly sad part. There is a real world highly profitable example of how it can be done right. However, management need to give up the slave owner mentality.
FWIW, QF FLT Ops management did a detailed study tour to SWA many years ago so they cannot claim ignorance. They must have missed the bits about treating your employees with respect & not building empires.