I'd agree with TheDude here. There are more jobs coming up for current and qualified, but be very carefull with those numbers you are looking at as Rishworth and friends give you total package, and it can be very costly to live in some places, with a family even more so.

There is also currently a whole lot of movement to the greener grass; one chap leaves airline A to go to B and another leaves B to go to A. What can I say, us contractors are an itchy bunch of chaps.

That all said, the wages are certainly better than much of the western world at the moment, and some T&C's are most certainly going up. So far as the shortage does I do personally see a real problem coming around the corner for the airlines worldwide, but that corner is more like two years away.

Just one idiots perspective.