I've been saying this for a while now. The 1500 hour limit will actually help create a sustainable supply of pilots. Sucking up 300 hour wonders does nothing for the industry long term and actually canibalizes future supply. When all the retirements kick in it will likely lead to more hiring than the last big wave in the late 90's.

Even at that time, it was easy to fill classes even at dirtbag regionals with high time pilots. At the peak of the hiring boom "12 and 2" was very standard most of the time as a rock bottom minimum. The CFI machine has spooled down significantly over this last decade but it can and will be spooled up again. Making the 300 hour wonders stick around and get another 1200 hours of instructing and/or other jobs in the industry will be necessary to insure a constant supply and will only take an extra year or so. The ADHD MBA's of the world will just have to accept that they can't take every wet commercial pilot all at once just to staff for a short period of time.

The airlines need the 1500 hour rule more than we do.