I will only believe a shortage when an airline calls me: "Mr. XYZ, yes is airline ABC, we have your number from the FAA medical records, sorry the bother but we would like to invite you for an interview process, would you be interested..."
Is management 204, now we need concessions because we don't have pilots, and we have been loosing money due to cancellations....or the classic, take concessions for bigger equipment, we need to make the number in order to mitigate initial cost, and right now we don't have it... Rv5, am with ya'