Originally Posted by
727574drvr
Well said! If your ALPA card does not say Delta, United, or FedEx they do not give two $hits about you. Ask the guys from USAir, Pan Am, Midway, TWA, Braniff, Eastern, etc, etc, etc... They encourage the upper tier carriers to "eat their young".
I believe there to be a lot of truth in that statement.
As for the topic at hand, 700 hours is definitely a lot closer to where it should be, imo. But I don't get all of the love for university programs. I work for a university program with a direct hire agreement, and I don't believe the quality of pilots here are any better than some of part 61 programs I've trained and taught at. I've never in my life seen such a coddled group of students/pilots. Its scary that these kids are in the right seat of a rj with only a commercial license and no absolutely no time past that (and in most cases no CFI ratings), a bunch of these kids have never flown through a cloud. Those are the kind of pilots that give a bad name to the sub-1500 hour hires.