booze, that about sums it up. People stay not because there's anything wrong with them but because there is nowhere better to go in their local areas (and not everyone is happy commuting and spending weeks on end in a hotel or moving their entire life and family abroad). Sum this with some peculiarities of the Eastern European way of doing things, multiply by the low number and high competitiveness of any other pilot job opportunities since early 2020 and you get what you see.