Western Michigan University, where I graduated from, just gave their instructors benefits and higher pay. For a family man this might work over going to an airline. I myself never got a CFI because at the time the lack of benefits and pay made for a regional job if I could get one a better choice so I took it. I Think that flight instructors need to be looked at as a long term professional career with pay to match. I think that there are some people out there that would leave an airline job to be home. Only problem there is that now you have raised the cost of training and lost more students. Supply and demand, airlines will have to start paying more to get pilots and that will trickle down and more people will start flying. Of course plane tickets will increase, lowering numbers of passengers, which lowers the demand for airlines. It is quite a chain of events but it will all work out.