Originally Posted by
Ellen
I couldn't agree more. If 300 hour or even 600 hour pilots are so experienced, than why doesn't Southwest, FedEx , JetBlue, AirTran, Alaska, Continental, Delta, et el hire them? It's because they don't have decision making skills, and lack of decision making skills leads to incidents and accidents.
NO, the day there aren't anymore pilots avialable is the day Fedex will lower their mins to 300. Supply and demand, has nothing to do with experience. How do you explain the fact that regionals used to hire at 2500 with 500 multi and now have dropped to a couple of hundred? Or what about parts of the world that hire 500 hour 737/A320 pilots?