They did that in the past because everyone was hiring and the competitive mins were relatively low ... they didn;t want to hire the more experienced guy because he would jump ship to the better airline asap. In the next wave when career airlines start hiring in large numbers; I don't think they will be worried about people jumping ship because of the relatively quick movement at those airlines and the fact that there is a HUGE pool of guys with 10000 plus hours with near perfect records. The competitive minimums will be quite high and 5000 Tsic or 1000 pic isn;t going to get you the job at any highly competitive airline unless you are extremely lucky.

I am not talking down to people btw. I am in the same boat and will be one of the guys well under the competitive minimums for where i want to go. I was more trying to explain to that poster why i think ****ing away your early 20's is a huge mistake. He could be somewhat happy while he builds his time but he is instead under the impression that he will be out the door at 1000 TPIC.