It's nice to hear good news stories about recruitment.
A few stories I've heard on the wires in the last week or so.
Australia needs 1200 pilots a year but can only train 400 per year.
Emirates and Etihad expanding massively (not jobs for new guys but as experienced pilots move out to the desert it leaves slots in other places).
Low cost expansion european and asian
I'm currently seconded to a North American airline and I've heard serious problems with jet sim availabilty for training crews.
BUT also
Enviromental threats - Antartica is shrinking - unusually hot year in Kenya and Canada. ( This may affect all our long term interests in this industry - I know we are not the major cause but we are an easy and popular villian.
Oil prices too high.
Possibly overambitious expansion plans by airlines.
Rumours of redundancies amongst merging airlines.
Several new start airlines struggling.
Property on the slide - esp if Spanish or other holiday homes start to crash, a lot of low cost business goes up in smoke!
Remember it only takes some small tin pot dictator and a world scale event to throw airlines rapidly into reverse.
I'm not claiming hard facts for any of these points just rumours I've heard on the flight deck - this is ppRune after all.
Good luck.