It is about time the airlines realize skill is not how many hours or where you bought your education, but what does the individual have to offer. Florida flight schools are among those on the list. I'd bet you would be hard pressed to find them. There are several schools that give an education but no real life experience. Start paying mechanics a respectable wage, then more people would start to enter the field.
Auto mechanics have it better than airline mechanics.
They work Monday-Friday and have weekends off. They don't have to work swing or graveyard, every holiday, outside in all kinds of nasty weather. Auto mechanics also do not have to deal with the Federal Aviation Administration. Simply, the industry needs to wake up and pay up. I read the JetBlue article with interest and was somewhat disappointed, as usual, to see the mechanics mentioned almost as an afterthought.