Cloud Surfer
All Roads lead to Trantor
Starting pay for pilots is an utter insult to everything that pilots did to reach a position wherein they could carry passengers for hire. It's uttery sickening that the public could care less about some pilots subsisting off food stamps. What you pay for is what you get in return. So does the public want pilots living in crash pads and making bare minimum wage, or well fed and rested pilots who are happy about their line of work? Who wants a lowly paid, unhappy surgeon operating on himself? I would bet no one.