Originally Posted by Swakid8

I have and but going straight to the data from the FAA says otherwise….. 8k ATP-MEL issued is a bit high. This data produced by the FAA goes up to 2021, shows about about 5K ATPs, 9k Commercial certs being issued. I am still looking for data for the current year 2022.

https://www.faa.gov/sites/faa.gov/fi...men-stats.xlsx

Even ALPA doesn’t claim 8k, ATP certificated pilots were created. They just claim only 8k Newell certificated pilots were created.

https://www.alpa.org/news-and-events...past-12-months