Originally Posted by
ShotOne
"..moves the shortage around". I'd like to see evidence of this "shortage"; Starting pay rates for many newly-qualified pilots are still only just above burger-flipping money in many airlines. The reality is that for many years, certain sectors of the industry have become used to a free supply of expensively-trained pilots at no cost to themselves.
Burger-flipping must be more lucrative than I thought it was!
What surprises me about all the posts here is that it's as if this had never happened before! "Flying instructors go to airlines when jobs are available" -- wow! Is that 'news'?