Right, but the Pilot's beef isn't so much their actual salary as the fact that while they took a huge cut in 2003 to save the company, the senior management promptly paid themselves obscene bonuses and partied on.
Right but the pilots conveniently forget they were offered a choice:
#1 - Big cut now, bonus later if profits are made;
#2 - Small cut now, nothing later.
Salaried employees (incl. management) took option 1. No prize for guessing which option the pilots picked only to bitch about the missed opportunity later...
In all fairness, it is worth noting that AA pilots work for less than 1993 hourly pay rates, following the 2003 agreement;
And they fly less than their legacy colleagues. To be fair to them, one should point out they accepted lower flight hours to reduce furloughs. Senior pilots could have made more by sticking to higher flight hours, junior pilots would have been looking for employment elsewhere...