Originally Posted by
Pedro4President
The lack of incentives has passed. When you are talking about 50-60k in year 1 and the 75-80 in years 3-4 then you can't say people aren't going to enter the industry due to lack of compensation.
Yes, you absolutely can. If the qualified pilots exist but chose not to take the job, the compensation (whether it be pay, opportunity, QoL) is not high enough.
An Econ 101 class would teach you enough about economics to know that there is no shortage, presently. It's simple supply and demand. The supply exists, the price (compensation) just isn't high enough to bring the existing supply to the market in the quantities the regionals would prefer. That's not a shortage.