Originally Posted by TimetoClimb

I guess I'm lucky there's so much hiring going on.
I just think classes of 100 at skywest or 30-50 at most the regionals month after month is not consistent with the notion of a labor "shortage". It's a marketing tactic by the industry in collusion with the media to ensure a steady supply. While the pool may more limited than in generations past, it seems to me it is by no means drying up. Maybe my opinion will change when I get to 121 and see for myself.or Maybe 80 a month at skywest for several years is just a drop in the bucket? I think 40k was the threshold for new cfi and part 135 entrants , bucketlisters and people returning to the industry.

Seems to be majors hiring ramps up, attrition ramps up and then we get all crazy about a shortage of regional pilots but that ramps up and they come out of the woodwork. The RAA presentation I saw did say only 60 percent of hiring goals were met, so I could be way off kilter, or they could be fudging numbers to further the case of repealing the 1500hr rule.

I was sugessting mention of.the word "shortage" is highly charged and does not serve the piloting profession so to speak