Gloves off
Me thinks it is about time to stop talking about "Pay to fly". Those paying for line training or hours in the seat and when program is finished taking a salary that hardly pays for food are actually paying to work, paying to do the same job I and most of the people I know, want to be paid a salary for.
I've seen salaries drop and conditions worsen in the last 10 years to the extent that my income today is roughly half what it was in 2000. I can only see this getting worse as there are more and more people around willing to pay to sit in the seat rather than get paid for it.
I cannot imagine a truck or a bus driver actually paying an employer thousands of euros to drive a vehicle? Or a Nurse or a Paramedic doing the same with a company providing rescue services or with a hospital.
Flying commercial jets for the purpose of air transport is a bloody job not a hobby. If people want hobbies they can rent a fartcart like a Cessna 150 and drill holes to the sky, well thats how I see it.