Exactly. The last thing we need is more money from Uncle Sugar flowing into an already artificially cost inflated "big-Ed" scam. Not to mention the entire industry sat idly by as so much of the flight instruction infrastructure crumbled in front of them, but as Jerry Seinfeld says, that's "tomorrow guy's problem!" Now all that's left are ridiculous all glass quarter million dollar "trainers" embedded within ridiculous 6 figure degrees in nothing, for a sizable additional cost, of course.

Now they want John Q Taxpayer to bail them out of it, right in the middle of them being so flush with cash they literally don't know what to spend it on and are incinerating billions per year in historically comedic buybacks and the like.

Our government should smack down the dual subsidized ME3, BoB and FoC scab model of NAI and their ilk, but the "shortage" nonsense is something that 100% will be addressed by the market.

This "crisis" (if it ever even manifests to that level, which is debatable anyway) will take many years to get to that point. In the meantime, what are they actually doing about it? Nothing, except band aid money throwing at the regionals for a quick fix and begging for MPL scams and probably soon cabotage, which won't solve it for them either.

Yet B-schol bonuses keep flowing for the "executive talent" even as they refuse to navigate the icebergs because they're busy galavanting around the Captain's Table in the Stateroom.