I agree with nearly everything you write but I don't agree there is pilot shortage.

There are all kinds of pilots with the ratings and time who sit at desks all day and make great money and awesome QoL, I am one of them.

I'd take a 30% pay cut for 1 wk on and one off or similar schedule but there's no way I'll do it for 22k a year.

Pay comes up, bs management stuff stops, pilots come out of the wood work and $mart kids will want to ri$k 150k to be a pilot.

Of course for that to happen pigs will fly too