Tourist, are you not overromantisizing the past? There were crappy airlines then, with crappy pay and crappy status. Or were you all treated with the egards of a BA Concord skipper even though you flew for some obscure charter?
What we are trying to say, or at least what I am trying to point out, is that our friend Andrew here is complaining about things as if he is a veteran at the end of his carreer, not a guy who is lucky enough to be where he is right now. If a cadet starts moaning to me about experience levels then I just shake my head and chuckle.