Who's fault is it? Ours. Pilots work for dirt cheap, and if you don't there is a guy right behind you that will. That's why we need a national union. If Mr. Jones want to take his family across the country for vacation and spend less then $1000 then he better go get on a bus OR load up the vista cruiser and hit the road, plenty of super 8's along the way. He want to fly? Start saving.
How many Mr. Jones fill up airplanes and provide pilots jobs? If all those Jones' decide to fire up the Vista Cruiser, you're going to end up with even fewer people flying, fewer companies operating fewer airplanes, and fewer pilots employed - which would further increase the supply of pilots - and likely drive wages even further down. Super 8 will be doing great though - perhaps the pilots can work the front desk?
If you want every fast food worker to earn a decent wage, you need to sell $50 combos. No one would buy, and no one would be employed. A pilot has a bit more responsibility and training than the high school kid running a deep fryer, but the economics of supply and demand are the same.
I know Safeway's unionized grocery baggers make good coin. That's precisely why I DONT shop there, the prices are so high that I can't afford to. Think of how much business Safeway loses to the others because they've priced themselves out of the market. Think of how many people they don't employ because of this. Mandate that all stock boys make $20 and hour and you'll have a lot of grocery stores out of business and a lot of families at soup kitchens because milk and eggs are now unaffordable.
If you try to regulate the industry - either with ticket price or with the wages of pilots (and thus driving ticket prices up), you will inevitably reduce the consumer demand and shrink the industry - putting more people out of work and/or reducing the employability of new guys. The only practical way to drive wages up (and ticket prices which would have to rise with the cost structure) is to make pilots a rare item. The industry would shrink, but since there'd be fewer pilots, there would still be decent employment options and pay for the (relatively) smaller number of pilots.
How to make the supply smaller is controversial. The regulatory authority likely wont institute any extra requirements to becoming pilot (like, say a master's degree in aerodynamics) because industry (via extremely well paid lobbyists) would cry fowl at how this is increasing their cost structure and hurting Canadian industry.
