Originally Posted by
saudipc-9
GR737..and you can back up your statement with facts?
Here's a fact: Many US regional airline pilots qualify for public assistance.
Here's another fact: All of those regional airlines have far more applicants then jobs.
When you have an employer paying a salary that qualifies the employees for welfare, yet you have pilots lining up to get other jobs, you don't have a pilot shortage, not by any reasonable definition of the word "shortage".
Now, when the low-paying airlines start parking planes because they can't get pilots to fly them, or they start dramatically improving pay and working conditions because nobody is applying for their welfare level jobs *then* you might say that there's a start of a pilot shortage.
Until that happens, there's no shortage.