I maintain some hope that the airlines really will experience a "pilot shortage" but I'm not going to place any bets on it. I think there should at least be steady movement (even if it is slow). It will be a few years before I will even get a shot at the regionals, so I might be in a great position, or I may just be in a pilot ghetto (which I would be inclined to decline. I would rather find work elsewhere than become a part of the issue). Time will tell!