Majors hiring 18,000 pilots in the next 3 years? Don't think so maybe he meant next 5-10.

There is no pilot shortage. Mesa just hired 25 last month. Thousands of ATPs out there. They are working in different fields due to the lack of pay. The problem is the regional airlines and the majors having 40% of feed flown by them.

He is crying that he doesn't have the bottomless well of cheap pilots that the regionals once had.

Guaranteed govt. loans would only allow ATP and ERAU to raise prices like they do at colleges and having pilots paying off even higher loans. We have new hire pilots coming in that have debt that is the same as my brothers medical school loans. He has been paying them off for 10 years, how long will it take for a regional pilot to pay them off?