Originally Posted by
The Bullwinkle
None of this is going to be of any significance.
In Australia, you will never see a flying school of the necessary scale to train the number of pilots required.
Seriously, it’s like trying to treat a shark bite with a bandaid!
For the thinking pilot it is a tacit admission the long denied shortage is real, it will persist and airlines are concerned.
Further, having successfully strip mined General Aviation and the military, as well as self funded (indebted) cadets, there is still insufficient supply to address the increasing retirement rates.
Both QF and VAH are building Potemkim villages, probably complete with cardboard aircraft.
Airlines have enjoyed the upper hand that unlimited supply gave them in pilot negotiations.
They will persist with the illusion until it is painfully obvious to all that they need more pilots as evidenced by the idle aircraft hiding at airports country wide.