340,000 Pilots Needed For The Next 20 Years?

Boeing alleges that 340,000 pilots will be needed to fill the seats of
the aircraft currently on order. No wonder they want to take over our
nation's ATC system:


AUSTRALIA TESTING NEW CERTIFICATION TRACK FOR AIRLINE PILOTS

There's nothing new about ab initio training programs that start
flight students off from zero time with the goal of an airline
job. But ICAO, the International Civil Aviation Organization, is
now developing that track into a completely separate certification
path, with a drastic cut in the required flight time to get to the
right seat in a passenger jet. Alteon Training
(http://www.alteontraining.com/articl...s.aspx?id=938),
a Boeing subsidiary, announced this week that it's launching a
"beta test" of a training program for the ICAO Multi-Crew Pilot
License in Brisbane, Australia. "The world's airlines will need
more than 17,000 pilots each year for the next 20 years to fill
the seats of the airplanes on order," said Marsha Bell, a
spokeswoman for Alteon. "The world needs a better training
solution for those pilots."
http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archive...ll.html#194564

http://www.alteontraining.com/articl...ls.aspx?id=938
According to the Boeing Current Market Outlook, the market will
require more than 27,000 new airplanes to be delivered to the
world’s airlines over the next 20 years. The Asia-Pacific region
will receive 28 percent of these aircraft deliveries through 2025.


Does anyone else find that lowering the bar for pilot training in the
name of necessity to fill the cockpits of airliners currently on order
is a recipe for reduced air safety?