It's sad how people like C.... , try to simplify and belittle what is a complex, technically advanced and skilled position... I don't care what you say... landing 20 tonne or 200 tonne safely, in monsoons/fowl wx or just big crosswinds takes expertise!
It's also sad how the equation has been stuffed up.
It takes 4 key ingredients to run an airline:
1) Airframes
2) Crew to operate (
PILOTS& F/As)
3) Fuel to go
4) Pax
Just so many people are riding the coat tails, that the water has been muddied and the simple equation lost .