Originally Posted by SLIbandit

Here's an even easier solution: how about all new hires actually have experience flying, as in 1500 TT, an ATP, actual PIC in something besides the little mosquito they soloed in. Fly cargo, checks, instruct, SOMETHING!! I'm tired of the pilot mill / wet ticket, clueless parental trust-fund idiots!! Go prove you can actually hand fly something, at night, in weather, possibly alone even, and do it for a few years.
I see baby captains with no PIC in anything somehow survive upgrade only to scare the crap out of countless FOs. It's not a matter of "if", it is a matter of "when"......