Originally Posted by
FreshWater
The lost decade had a massive amount of surplus military pilots, not anymore. The number of civilian pilots trained today are significantly less than just prior to 2001. The internet was a dirt road then. Through media we have effectively driven more talented prospective students to other careers. This recession needs to be a depression on an apocalyptic scale to have the surplus of pilots, that dirt bag airline managements love to prey on.
Nuclear saturation of western Europe is what management needs and prays for. Anything short of that won’t move the needle as it relates to the shortage of pilots.
Yeah, I mean I think if Western Europe got nuked, airlines would be the least of anyone's concerns. The way it's looking now, Western Europe is going to end up negotiating whatever needs to happen for their gas to be turned back on for the winter, otherwise they'll freeze. His Fraudulency, however, is probably not going to let Hunter's war be lost so easily, so that might get interesting. Beyond that, yeah, hopefully the shortfall is enough where hiring and movement continues during the downturn, but just look at the absolute insanity of the last two years over a respiratory virus with a greater than 99% survival rate. We'll see what happens.