The supply is going to increase, one way or another. Airline managements are throwing their clout around and that will only intensify. If it gets bad enough, they will have an easy time persuading Congress/FAA to lower the mins, create an MPL and worst of all, cabotage and/or start dumping money off Uncle Sugar's printing press to cover it.

There's going to be money thrown at flight schools either way. I'd rather that money be constrained by the free market (as close to such a thing as we have anyway) than dumped into mega euro style puppy mills full of endentured servants with massive training bonds. The flight training/recruiting infrastructure will see increases, no matter what. Sitting this one out and hoping we win big with bidding power as an insufficient and ever shrinking supply of pilots commands neverending, exponential financial gains may sound good to you but it will quickly backfire if it ever gets to that point.

I want the 1500 hour rule to stay, and I don't want an MPL or anything like it. I'd prefer we keep an experienced based system rather than some brainiac chosen one system that only focuses on right of passage bookwork trivia and synthetic training flying all glass wonder boxes through pink squares in the sky.

We need more at the foundation level. Despite your rediculous implied hyperbole, that doesn't mean flooding the market with billions of wet ink ATP's. No one is suggesting that. A realistic system that turns out a reasonable number of 1500+ hour ATP's is the only thing that's going to keep MPL and the EK's of the world from poaching our industry merchant marine style. We need a supply solution before it gets to truly crisis proportions or rest assured they will find solutions that won't be good for us. They are already working on them and have many millions to spend getting their way on the Hill.