No other career requires as much investment as flying
Giving pilots an average wage is utter rubbish, we already take the job of the navigator, radio man, engineer and pilot (probably someone can add something else to that too!). Live of many men, woman, kids are in the pilots hands. Higher health risks and safety issues, look at the life insurance for a pilot too. It only makes sense that pilots should get a good wage, the pay is way too low already.
I remember in a paper or somewhere it said that 85% of statistics is false or misleading so, hardly will take this seriously, but this news will probably be another great reasons to squeeze the pilots even more....
We need to take action to get pilot right back!