Originally Posted by
sherpster
United has 10k apps and pull a hire 700 in a year. Big deal.
Not sure what that sentence is supposed to say. However the same 10,000 pilots United have on file are the same 10,000 pilots Delta, American, FedEx, UPS etc etc have apps from also. It's a numbers game and 10,000 is conservatively about 4 years supply for the projected demand that the major airlines will need. Barring a catastrophe the requirements will get very flexible at that point. So it depends how you define a shortage. Is it when airlines hire MS flight sim kids and train them to be cockpit ready or when they lower the requirements to a standard that is below the major hoop jumping, circle jerking and massive financial sacrifices I had through to get a turbo prop job a few decades ago?...its all relative.