Its here: pilot shortage
 

If you care to trust a news media (Wall street Journal)

Airline-Pilot Shortage Arrives Ahead of Schedule
Pilot Retirements and New Rules on Training and Rest Hurt More Than Expected

By SUSAN CAREY and JACK NICAS CONNECT
Feb. 3, 2014 8:15 p.m. ET
A shortage of qualified pilots has hit U.S. airlines sooner and more severely than expected, leading the airlines to accelerate hiring and cut some service.

The shortage flows from both a long-anticipated wave of pilot retirements and recently enacted rules that require an increase in training for new pilots and more rest for existing aviators at passenger airlines.

Regional airlines—which offer meager starting pay and tend...

If i get hired by a regional you can then admit there is a shortage. :)

End of thread.

Pay them and they will come. There is not a shortage of pilots, they have simply ran low on people willing to fly for these concessionary crap contracts.

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We've got numerous threads discussing the alleged pilot shortage, let's keep to those for now. Use the search window at the upper right to retrieve them.