Then consider all the other industries like engineering, medical, legal and public services. It's a crazy old world...
but they don't pay for working at least. No need to be slave for base and whare you want to live, no need to be under pressure under medical things (and worse in futur due to germanwings), no need to start all over like us when you change a company, we can even be again a copilot after being a captain (nonsense)....do I have to continue?
And their terms and condition may go down too, but not like us, for us, it's RACE to the bottom. Nothing to compare.
Oh, and
all my friends in other industry, at least they have property (house) and a stable life.
But of course, as others industry are crap, so it's a reason to lower our conditions too.