Pilot "shortage"
Having been in aviation both "fixing em and flying em" for neigh on 30 years I think there will never be a shortage of people to fly aeroplanes(note the Queens ENGLISH spelling), as such. What there will be is a shortage of pilots to fly on the Employers terms ,eg Jet2 are struggling to find people to pay for all training for a part time job(else why keep advertising?). So there will be a shortage of P2F and "interns of aviation" in a few years time. I do think that if the world does not run out of oil when the recovery starts for real(2017) that the demand for flying in the UK will return to prior 2008 levels with the same pilot requirement(a lot).