I would agree with your point about working for sub-par wages. How many AF "mainline" pilots will work for Transavia France ? Very few. Maybe the odd seconded manager / trainer for a while. This is just another LCC brought in by stealth ( Vuelling being another example) and they will just recruit guys direct in to Transavia France on far lower conditions and terms. Eventually the AF network ( and KLM for that matter) both domestically and intra Europe will shrink, as Transavia takes over more and more of it. That sadly is the realism of the LCC model and that equally sadly is part of the never ending race to the bottom. And that I suspect is the real result, in 5 or 10 years time.