Right On
No doubt you are truthful. No how, no way any pilot shortage in USA. Plenty of us guys out here with nearly 1500,and some with more than that. I am unable to count on both hands the amount of pilots that I personally know that have bailed, and gone into more secure and or lucrative work. I hate to tell you that a flight attendent, ramp agent at a major airline makes often more than first officers at regionals. Not to mention CFI's at foreign academys in Arizona and California. I am seeing some logic being used here for pilot shortage, but it doesn't mean there aren't enough guys out there. They just may not go back.