Originally Posted by
Cubdriver
You're the one claiming there's a shortage. I showed that view is not in very good alignment with some pretty basic facts about the numbers of ATP airmen around. If you think 70,000 active of those ATP's are not interested in the airlines, then where's the facts to support that claim? At best there seems to be something amiss in the business of claiming there's a pilot shortage if it cannot account for these basic facts.
If half our profession was unemployed, it would support your statistics. The historical unemployment rate of pilots is 2%. My point is, the study was poorly and hastily done. Your point is "see! No shortage! These vague and poorly defined numbers prove it! "