From my understanding.... if you go back 20+ years, pilots used to be paid a lot more. Which lead to a lot of people going for their commercial pilots license a

From my understanding.... if you go back 20+ years, pilots used to be paid a lot more. Which lead to a lot of people going for their commercial pilots license and flooding the market. This let the major airlines drop the salary of starting pilots. Looks like the salary games drove away enough people and now the problem has swung the other way.