Until you can get everyone thinking for the greater good of all then things won't change.
And there's the rub !
The view of the greater good of the inteligensia is that companies must pay more and more taxes for the
greater good.
And so, when taxation in one state increases, the final price to the buying customer necessitates that cost cutting must be enacted elsewhere in order to remain competetive with a product that is provided elsewhere under different taxation as invariably happens to airlines.
Yes. I agree that pilot T&C's are heading to new lows, but demanding the customer pay more is not the only issue, the main issue is to STOP governments viewing aircraft operation as a defacto tax collector or a golden goose for tax revenues.
Governments across the world have for too long viewed airlines as a golden goose and they are chocking it to the point that the business itself and indeed its taxation source is migrating, with the result that they thus increase taxation to make up the shortfall, resulting in operators needing further overheads cuts to remain in a market with competition from overseas. And so T&C's ever decline.
But alas, the inteligensia demand companies pay more taxation as their
moral duty, but what do they care, the net result is that they get cheap seats to their villas in Tuscany with their copy of the
Grauniad tucked firmly under their arm.
We need to place pressure on government to reduce taxation on the industry and to
support it, rather than drive it away. A prime example is the issue of ever increasing demand on airports, the demand is there because well it's
demand, but in response the government fobs off supporting industry growth and so even more of it migrates.