Has the bigger picture occurred to you guys yet- that there may in fact not be enough suitable candidates?
Well maybe these airlines could do something constructive and actually DO SOME TRAINING!!!!
Maybe they need to up the training budget. Maybe they need to do thorough ground schools. Maybe they need to do recurrent ground schools. Maybe they need to do 4 sims a year of which two are non jeopardy training only.
The reality is that Western airlines have been spoiled for choice post WWII. They have now destroyed the golden goose and apparently it is everyone else's fault. You cannot expect people to spend 100K+ on flying training then to work for REX on 40K
China Southern and Singapore manage to run airlines with candidates that have ZERO aviation experience and they are not crashing aeroplanes everyday.
Maybe just maybe it's time airlines start rethinking about pilot recruitment and training.