Originally Posted by
ZeroTT
In medicine there is a concept of compensated and decompensated heart failure.
Just because you’re not turning blue and coughing up bloody froth doesn’t mean you have a normal heart.
The industry is in a state of compensated recruitment failure. It would not take much to tip things bad.
Tipping it bad is absolutely predictable. All the easy steps to alleviate the shortage have been done, but mandatory retirements of the baby boomer age pilots are not just continuing but accelerating while flying passenger miles are increasing.
It’s simple math.