Yes Danny, a central "register" of available pilots would a great idea in good times and bad!
Sorry but I didn't mean to try for free advertising (I've just spent £400+ on an ad. in Flight!)..I genuinely feel that any small morale booster in these awful times might be for the good.
Incidentaly, in our (small-jet AOC) world, a good pilot is never out of a job for long, and I'm sure that the same goes for the "Big-Boys".
They have been there before.... Air Europe, Dan Dare, Paramount, Court line, etc, etc. all failed, disgorging stunned pilots into the dole queues. It's a cyclical thing and (in reality) the spectre of sudden unemployment hangs over all of us, we know this, but it is part of the "payback" for being privaliged to have "the job that beats working for a living".
It's highly probable that in less than a year everyone will be hiring like mad and it will all start again!
All the luck in the world to all you guys...