The pilot shortage in Europe is similar to what you see in the States. The big, legacy airlines, will never have an issue finding pilots. But the smaller, ACMI/Charter/ULCC, airlines can struggle to find pilots at times. From fall 2016 to Covid, there was a ton of pilot hiring in Europe, it was really not hard to find a job at all if you looked outside of the likes of Lufthansa, KLM, etc. Even BA went through a pretty big hiring binge for a few years.