Originally Posted by
hurricanechaser
As far as I know a couple of CFI's at my flight school have left the business. One went into marine engineering and the other went to work for Jetblue as a Customer service agent scanning boarding passes. Another friend of mine works at a different flight school. Has 3,000+ TT and a over 500 ME and decided to quit aviation all together. He wasn't interested in working for the airlines and he actually landed a job on Wall Street while training one of his students.
So I guess that would be three pilots to add to the shortage altough I think the one guy that went to Jet Blue is taking a break for now.
It's not just CFI's, there's a bunch of furloughed airline pilots leaving the industry for other jobs.
Are they giving up? Not necessarily, but I think a lot of folks are wising up that it's better to work a better paying job now and come back when times are better than to scramble for the lowest paying airline jobs to somehow "save their career."