Yes Bob, all the bright folks are getting hoovered up by the big engineering companies, about time too.
I think the problem is that airlines don't respect the profession and treat the pilots accordingly, coupled with the fact that despite how bad the industry is people are still selling their souls to the devil, drowning in debt, fighting like ferrets in a sack, in order to get into the profession, because like Tommy the burger man out of Come Fly With Me, "Ah really, really, really want tae be a pilot, like", and nothing will stand in the way of it...