How anyone can say that the signs indicate a pilot shortage is on the way mystifies me.
How many airlines have gone "tits up" in the last 8 months? I can think of five just off the top of my head, and they're in Europe alone.
How many pilots have been laid off? I don't know but world wide, it's in the thousands.
How many airlines are struggling to make ends meet? and so on and so on.
To me, none of these signs indicate a pilot shortage now, soon or any time at all.
Sorry to be the barer of bad news, but that's just the way I see it.