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Classic political/management behavior.
This has been predicted for a decade. Airlines could’ve made investments into training pipelines in 2010-2015 and they’d be all set up and ready to go now. Instead, they chose to kick the can until the last possible second and hoped to change the rules instead of face the music.
A decade? Kit Darby has been pontificating about a pilot shortage since the mid 1990s. Even a broken clock is right twice a day.