Originally Posted by
Highway1
Over 4 decades ago when I first got into this industry there were people (pilots mostly) warning about an impending shortage - I'm retired now but cheered to see that that the same warnings are still going around..
48 years ago for me, and every time we were on the cusp of a real shortage a watershed event occurred: recessions, wars, 9/11, GFC. This time is different* even legacy carriers have about a third of the applicants they had as recently as ten years ago.
* ignoring headlines from the USA