Originally Posted by Timbo

I think you will see that as time goes by and the hiring pool starts to thin out. Right now they are flooded with guys who have been waiting on the sidelines for the past 10 years. There are about 10,000 applicants for 1,000 jobs (per year), so only 1 out of 10 can be hired, even if 80% of them are "Great Guys".

The training pipeline just can't swallow any more than that right now. But as the retiring age 65 pilots start heading out in droves over the next 5 years, the pipeline will have to expand and they will have to hire more than one out of 10.