While all these companies are training and hiring pilots, no one talks about the real elephant in the room…you can have all the pilots you want, full staffing 100%, but when there are NO A&P’s to work on the aircraft, all the new pilots and passengers will be left sitting at the gate with no maintenance personnel to fix anything. People are always talking about the pilot shortage, and rightfully so…BUT…the shortage of mechanics is the far greater threat to aviation, GA and Commercial that will not be able to recover. The shortage of mechanic’s is so severe, GA will not have the manpower with actual GA experience . The airlines are hiring any and all graduates from A&P schools leaving GA gutted for personnel.