Fact is, there are not many good companies around anymore. Most of them are crap, but as a pilot you have to survive and make the best out of it, especially if you are over 40 already.
If below I would try to go into some of the few good "gigs" around, BA for instance, or LH(which seems to go south as well pretty soon, then you will be flying for one of their zillion low cost daughter companies).
Most of the good companies died over the last 15-16 years, the rest is what it is, the rest.
They did their homework, saved every penny on maintenance by streamlining fleets, by outsourcing pilots or just by enforcing bad contracts. Then all the pay 2 fly crap started and enough professional sons and daughters took the chance and let daddy pay for their dream.
We will not change that anymore. As a pilot nowadays, especially the older, experienced ones who don't want to change seat anymore in their older days, will just to have pull through, try to make the best out of the situation. Or change profession which is easy said and hard achieved, considering that todays lousy salaries as a capt are still much better what some normal employee or even medium management is earning.
We can just make sure OUR kids dont't try to do the same mistake and go into flying. At least don't become a pilot, become controller. Better controlled and better paid with much better lifestyle.
That's a fact. Boeing will not think twice to support a good customer with some of their pilots, really, someone had just one second a doubt about that?