Well Dan you "old-timers" were absolutely right but a lot of you have also failed to admit that the industry is screwed up because of the "old-timers" if you look at the people in management in most companies they are part of the baby boom era. If you look at the economy it's a a downward spiral but again who are the heads of all these corporations "the baby boomers aka the old-timers". One generation alone has managed to screw up so many things on a global scale. Is agree that all these airlines should be paying more but again it is a privilege for an airline to give you housing or offer housing allowance, it isn't something they have to give. You made the decision to take a job in a foreign country so you should have to find your own place to live on your salary not the company giving you a housing allowance or giving housing it's a privilege that they do. Abuse of that privilege and many others by pilots themselves has caused managements to take away or lower these privileges. I personally find that is what a lot of the "old-timers" are not admitting to themselves. Taking huge housing allowances and buying houses and pocketing the remainder of the cash just milking the cow. Well due to the abused of that generation the shoe is now on the other foot for this generation and it's a damn shame that this generation not only have to deal with the destruction of the generation before us but we also have to find a solution to see to it that those after us never go through what we did. Abuse only begets more abuse people. Own up to your mistakes.