everyone? You do realize to this day many ALPA national leaders still say there’s no shortage, right? That many managements were demanding concessions from every pilot group right up to December 2014 and insisting it wasn’t a problem in spite of the fact we told them they’d be giving raises and improving working conditions before the ink was dry on that CBA extension.
you may have been agreeing with what we were saying, but to say everybody was saying it is false. There’s still large numbers of management and even union leaders who say there’s no shortage.