Of course the pilots are their own worst enemies here. As the employers rip up Ts and Cs that would normally cause a migration of their workers to the better employers, pilots persist with seniority defining everything they do. Just imagine if you discarded it for a while and let all the lowly paid, put-upon Captains move to airlines that offered a better deal, in the LHS. Watch the race to the bottom go into reverse, ask any train driver who has been around since deregulation. The employers know that anyone who has been with them for 10 years plus is loathe to move. So they can do what they like to them. They're not loyal, just prisoners of their own system!