Pencisely
of course you are right,I am largely ignorant of what the job of being a pilot involves,and I was in no way trying to compare the relative safety and security responsibilities of the two jobs,however I was a little surprised by the way you seemed to rubbish the role of cabin crew.
Of course it only takes a few weeks to train cabincrew ,and many months/years to train as flight crew however there is a selection process for crew which is designed to recruit the best candidates in the eyes of BA ,like there is for flight crew ,so only a small percentage are taken on.
I get the impression that you would like to see all crew working for a market rate ,but how do you work out a market rate for someone who has been working for the company for 30 years and has achieved a position of responsibilty onboard.
Sure ,it would be fantastic for the shareholders if WW could sack all high earning crew and replace them with waitresses on the minimum wage
,but if profitability was the only word ,the same would be done to flight crew who would be replaced with far cheaper versions ,who,having read other threads on this forum ,seem to be very numerous.