"The so-called 'low cost airlines' are mainly responsible for the erosion of the airline pilot profession. I have nothing but total and utter contempt for them - and for the carrion who fly with such bottom-feeding 'airlines' and who think that €5 tickets to some cow pasture aerodrome in the middle of nowhere is the way ahead."
Your problem are guys like me.
My company doesn't pay business class anymore on intra-european flights, even for managers. Because our customers refuse to pay as much for our products as they did in the past. We too need to cut costs in order to survive.
And if I do a short trip with LH on my own, I book a ticket for 99€. I'd never fly with Ryanair nor AB, but I will not accept to pay as much as I did in the past for LH tickets.
LH needs to find a way to earn money under these circumstances. If the staff insists on continuing the old game, the old rules, the company will not survive in the long term. It's as simple as that. Like it or not.