Originally Posted by
Convairator
This entire article/idea/premise is total hogwash. Flight schools, especially ATP, DCA, and other puppy mills, along with aviation and pilot associations like AOPA have a financial incentive to say that there is going to be a pilot shortage. This also includes university flight schools. They are stating a false premise to help ensure their own future financial viability while simultaneously misleading the public, and young guys and gals who think flying is totally awesome and being a pilot is now their goal.
This is the most accurate statement I have ever read. Everybody should have this comment stapled to their foreheads while attending any flight school. There simply is, and never was, a shortage of pilots.
There will be however, a shortage of people willing to work for the wages the airlines are willing to pay.