I think the pay is pretty good for the work they do, and only people trying to make their pay sound good count allowances and/or OT.
I have 2 mates that are good operators, very experienced and bypassed by people with no experience ie CPs son, so that's not a boys club ? AN, KA whatever. Real airlines don't do that 5hit, and the irony of that almost never happening at their previous employers (AN/KA) is not lost on myself and a lot of others. Can anyone spell " hypocrisy "
( they would have screamed blue murder if anyone jumped the que at their previous employers )