No shortage of FO's willing to cut their own throats, but there's a very serious shortage of captains, hence the cutbacks. They can't get command time applicants as only the gash, low-houred or desperate come here now. Hence the attempted raid on Air Berlin, which failed miserably.
The command failure is well above 50%. Why? Because people are pushed into it with minimum (i.e. less than 3000) hours. And anyway the cream of the crop doesn't exactly choose ryr these days.