Darling, actually the topic is "Willing to join R1? Some nice locations". As you've already stated previously you offer "tickets at fair prices". However one aspect one should consider in this business simulation game is how well you treat your employees. It's an ever growing issue in the real world with some countries offering better working conditions than others. Furthermore employee moral plays into your employee rating as you probably know. Airlines aiming for max. reputation could be interested in things like averages wages, or at least I am.
I was genuinely interested in your human resources policy. Unfortunatly you seem to have failed to recognise this.
Sweetheart, I really admire that in R4 North Atlantinc Air Shuttle currently has 100% reputation, The Flying Cow is currently at 76% and is fine with that at this moment in time (knowing that I could easily get to 100% in less than 3 months if I wanted so and knowing how, but right now I dont care).
Regarding The Flying Cow human resources policy - concrete figures can't be disclosed, but is fair enought to have an overall airline reputation well above average in R1 and pretty in line with those sitting in our top 20 by valuation.
Now, about real world and working conditions... "Life is hard" told one stone to another stone.
Business performance is closely tied with productivity. Simplifying - productivity will be how much outcome you get from a given input of resources (including labour). If processes and operations are not competitive and you are in a labour intensive setting, the cheaper the labour/hour the higher will be the productivity KPI (assuming constant output). Then you also have supply and demand of certain type of workforce in a given market that will set the market price for that labour. Is it fair or not? It just it is as it is.
In the aviation context (or basically any other business) unless there are some reliable and objective tools in measuring the increase in performance of the workforce if improved their working conditions, beyond regulations and being rational, there's no incentive in overpaying as otherwise you'll become less competitive when benchmarked against your competitors that being more efficient than you might end up eating you and forcing you to fire everyone and close the company.
A good manager will find a way to assess the improvement in performance of his employees when their working conditions are improved and will be able to justify that in front of the stakeholders. Neverthless, without objective figures that could sustain his position no rational stakeholder with a business driven mind will approve "free spending" just for the sake of being "nice", as otherwise that stakeholder would have probably gone to philantropy or charity.