What I'm getting at is this: You need pilots to fly an airplane (Yeah. Really! Ask AA. Or defunct Eastern Airlines). You need the mechanics. You even need cabin crew. You don't really need managers. You want them, sure. but you don't need them.
Mike you make some valid points but at the end of the day flightcrew costs at many legacy carriers are above market the rate. I'm sure if you were starting up an airline would you pay above market rates take AirAsia as an example do they have a problem to recruit pilots the correct answer is NO.