Well, I'm certainly not going to vote it in with the HOPE that another carrier can't staff the work. What kind of crazy logic is that!?

I'm a firm believer that the "shortage" is a PR scheme created by the airline industry to try to scare regulators into not implementing more regulation (FAR 117). We certainly don't have a shortage of applicants, nor does any other major. There will always be some juniors salivating for the chance to jump into an ERJ for $20k/yr....