Originally Posted by
atpcliff
No age limit is a temporary stopgap.
The other big factor is the continually rising cost of flight training, combined with the continually lowering median family income, along with the banks refusal to lend for pilot training costs.
True. Rasing the retirement age/ending the 1500 hour rule/etc will only be temporary band-aids and will only delay the inevitable. The high cost of entry coupled with the initial low pay has tainted the profession's image. Why be a pilot when you can major in computer science and make 6 figures right after graduation? Until drastic changes are made to make the job desirable again you will have nobody starting training.
And let's be honest. Giving the airlines a few years to "fix" the problem will result in nothing. They will only change when they absolutely have to. They made their bed and now they can lay in it.