He said too few pilots were being trained, those who were often went overseas after training
Because there's no bloody jobs for them here, so why do we need to train more!
This article just wreaks of Sausage factory Flying Schools who built their business round the uncapped and unregulated student loans of the mid 2000's.
I finished Instructing not long after these loans began, but what I saw was bordering on the criminal. Kids with no aptitude as Pilots, 50+ hours in their books and still not solo. The instructors wouldn't say anything, they wanted the hours, and the flying schools wouldn't chop them because the money kept coming in. I hate to think how many are still suffocated by debt with nothing to show for it.