The flow of inactive pilots will reduce to a trickle by the middle of 2023. New hires will join at the bottom of a very long (and unknowable) list, behind any inactive pilot who comes back before 2026. At this stage the recruiting and training department is chugging along at anything from 20 to 30 per month, and intends to do so for the foreseeable future. New hires can't get start dates until VA runs out of redundant pilots to take those spots. By the time VA calls those pilots many will have a better offer.