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There is acute/immediate shortage of pilots with a year or more in a jet because regionals stopped hiring and majors offered early outs. Both of those actions caused this. Originally Posted by Mytime2025
You obviously are just buying the ALPA propaganda line. First those numbers are not complete. How many are even interested in an airline carreer? How many of those ATPs are current? How many are medicaled out? ALPA posted numbers that look very incomplete in my opinion. The FAA has acknowledged a pilot shortage. ALPA is the outlier in this.
That’s not the same a chronic shortage due to high barriers of entry.