With respect to the question about requiring pilots to have logged a minimum of 1500 hour BEFORE getting hired by a US airline, according to information available from the US FAA public website, predictions for the US aviation industry – outside of the US commercial airline portion of that industry – indicate that all other flight operations will average approximately 34.4 million hours per year from now to 2023 (slightly less initially and slightly more toward the end of that time as the annual growth rate is projected to be approximately 3.2% per year, on average). An average of 34.4 million hours per year provides an average of 2.86 million hours per month over this period. The estimated requirements for pilot are that up to 500 pilots per month will be required to fill vacant airline FO seats for the next 10+ years. If each pilot is required to have logged a minimum of 1500 hours prior to applying for an airline job, this would require approximately 750K hours. Or, said differently, in order for 500 pilots per month to be able to log a minimum of 1500 hours prior to being eligible to be hired into the airline business, just a bit over 26% of all the hours flown outside of commercial airline service every month would have to be available to these “airline aspirants.”