No pilot shortage in Brasil
Tehre is no pilot shortage in Brasil and the reason its obvious if there were shortage salaries would improve and/or working conditions.
Right now they give only minimum days off required by regulations salaries are still low (going up) but still far from 10 years ago when FO's use to make what they paying for captains today.
Plus Brasilian pilots should stop braging government and start to understand that government are just a reflex of the people in other words if pilots in Brasil don't stop breaking rules and laws afraid of losing their jobs they will never be respected. Still captains there boarding passenger w/o checking weather. Recently an accident that total the airplane was caused by a pilot who took off with weather below minimuns and not only that he also decided to go ahead and try the IFR procedure and went down below mins and of course crashed. It was not general aviation it was 135 or 121 freighter E-110 Bandeirante.
So how they expect the authorities to respect them if they don't respect themselves?
Hope conditions improve for several expats (me included) go back to our country.