Our neighbor at the beach house is a captain for Jet Blue, and during Covid, a lot of pilots took early retirement. The airlines offered packages based on age; he wasn't old enough to get the best buyout, so he's still flying, but a lot of the older pilots did. I guess that's at least part of the reason for the pilot shortage, and I don't see how that will change anytime soon, as new pilots must be trained and meet the required hours to fly commercial flights. I also guess (and this is purely speculation, not based on any knowledge at all), that flying into SXM isn't one for the newbies.