Originally Posted by Careercfi

Hi Nick,

I can only tell you my little perspective of things - much an attempt towards logical guessing at this time.

Past: A few years ago flight schools and their students suffered badly because they were left alone, outside in the rain by time hunters that left for a right seat and frozen dinners.
That somehow changed the market, towards better pay, benefits, retirement and sometimes quite desperate measures to retain CFI's.
I met CFI's making $40/hour + benefits - flying 8 hours a day.
Desperate school = Instructors.

Now: - the CFI market appears stable...many foreigners are taking advantage of very cheap AVGAS and a strong Euro.

Future: Furloughed pilots still have their instructor ratings - they taught 3 years ago (some half motivated at best) and now many of them are loosing their jobs. Whether they will be subject to recall or not - many will remember the old times teaching for 11 dollars an hour and try to get back in. Just now, their logbook is filled with what the market calls high quality flight time. My guess:
Very desperate pilots = School.

The question seems - have the flight schools learned enough not to be to dependent on the state of the airline industry?
Don't know what to make of it myself.