There are much less people considering going into flight school now than 5 or 10 years ago. I would speculate that money vs reward is an issue. Flight training cost are going up while it is a known fact that airline pilot pay and compensation is going down. I could have put a similar effort, money and personal sacrifice into medicine and had my future a lot more ensured.

This then begs the question about how airlines are going to supply there businesses with pilots. Will they except less qualified pilots? Probably. What happens if the cost of flight training becomes overwhelmingly prohibitive? I happen to think its is pretty close to that now.

The answer is the MPL. I was wondering how they were going to do it. This just makes sense (not good sense, but business sense). I do not advocate it. I do not support it. But it looks like it might be coming.