Wasn´t Galieo Galilei banned from walking as a free Man? I think he was under house arrest, just a question to complete my rusty knowledge! The meaning was he paid with his free life.
He just came into my mind when I was writing the answer and I rememberd a discussion with a Friend about a Restaurant in Roma, close to Piazza di Fiorino where a Sculptcure of Galileo Galilei is displayed. Sometimes my brain runs faster ahead then my fingers are able to follow when I type......
But neverthereless I also see the point of East is cheaper.... So we have to either take it or sit all on our butt that the metal does not move for a few days. Utopic and illusoric dream / nightmare: All Pilots would be united like Brothers in the Sky and correct the long overdue payscheme.
Alot of people who work from Monday to Friday, from 9 to 5 get with less effort and qualification lasting forever a much higher pay then Aviators. Many years back some Pilots pay got compared with Air Traffic Controlers, they where much lower at the time back. The last decade they fortunatly picked up and many Pilots stagnated. Time for moving the scale up again.
Fly safe and land happy
NG