I could fix the problem with a lazy $500 million
Possibly. However, That brings us to the old chestnut that Dick Smith has mentioned already, why can’t anyone in Australia do it?
Now, the cynic in me reckons that CASA would see it as the purpose of their existence to take every one of those $500 million dollars off you somehow. Preferably before a pre start checklist was even commenced.
However, If the pilot shortage is so acute it necessitates work visas, then starting up a high quality flying training organisation in Australia should be one of the most lucrative investment desicions an individual (or company for that matter), could make in the current environment! That’s before you even take on contracts to train pilots for foreign airlines.
Why isn’t it, and why aren’t we (collectively as Unions, pilot / aviation organizations), doing anything to change it?
An entire industry is dying, in a country that has the weather and empty skies that should see it flourish, and a supposedly economically competent (yeah right) government is letting it happen!