Lack of pilots is a time of the past, there will soon be surplus pilots on the market, at least in the western world. Only booming developing countries in Asia are still desperate, but of course nobody wants to fly there, at least not for the present working condition.
Interesting though that The Times already gets the story, after we had that problem for half a decade now
BA as well as AF are desperatly looking for new pilots now, look at the big adverts in Flight these days. I wonder if those who are selected now will employed in a year or two...
Dani