Pilot Shortage?!?!?!?!?!?
Tell that to the multiple XL captains I know who cannot even get a job as an FO.
Tell that to several integrated fATPL holders I know working their bottoms off as cabin-crew.
Tell that to my two friends who self-funded A320 TRs and cannot get an interview between here and Japan.
Tell that to the flight schools too busy to take on modular students.
Pilot shortage?
And the Euro will survive, oil prices will drop, airlines will pay for TRs, Iran will let inspectors in......