I'm not sure if I missed this in the authors piece, but does he count for how many of those commercial students were foreign? From personal experience, trying to find Americans wanting to take up the piloting profession is is like looking for a needle in a haystack in my part of town. There are at least 3 puppy mills cramming 300 Chinese students through the grinder every 6 months here in Dallas. That's 1500 new commercial certificates alone. My questions is, when it hits the fan again, will the airlines start looking abroad to hire foreign students at an even lower salary than they're willing to pay US citizens?