I thought this thread was supposed to about the question of if there's a Canadian pilot shortage....

From my understanding there is. Westjet's goal was to have 100% flow thru from Encore. They're down to near 50% now from their previous 70-75%. They (the Encore side) are needing to hire an addition 250 pilots this year just based on upgrades and retirement/attrition. That doesn't account for the 10 new tails they're getting this year. They (mainline) just recently had a posting for street FOs and Encore has had an open posting for street captains for months now.

Over on the Air Canada side, they're taking pilots from their regional partners much faster than they can replace them. Jazz needs 300 additional pilots this year, and Sky Regional had 130 in their last class alone and again has a posting up for more. just prior to that they had a posting for the E175 street captains which they NEVER do.

Just my two cents