Originally Posted by mobius27

Depends on your definition of shortage. Great Lakes is desperate. Republic can't fully staff their Q400's. Meanwhile Compass is still being choosy and I haven't heard any problems from Skywest, though they are about to start receiving their E-175's. There are certainly less pilots willing to go to certain airlines now than there have been in the past, which I think you could define as the beginning of a much larger industry wide shortage. It will never reach the level where it directly effects the majors, but I think we will see difficulties across most of the regionals eventually.