I certainly accept that there is an impending shortage of pilots. As for Australian pilots, there's a shirt load of them, just not in Australia. You can direct blame to Dixon's etc and you'd probably be right. How many CX pilots started out on the dash 8 in Australia? Obviously the bottom feeders are going to feel the shortage first and I assume that's happening now. Even with the issue of a 457 visa, a tour is Australia is only going to be for 1500 hours and then it's off to delta or united.