Preface: I am an ex-regional pilot that admittedly has been having a hard time with leaving "the game", so that's why I come here on occassion. I think this is a hysterical debate. I'll leave my personal views on this subject out, excluding the fact that the low time newbies do make me think twice about which carrier I would fly on.

Anyway, I was sitting here reading this thread and all the "but 600 hours is enough experience" and "I'm 19 and ready to be an airline pilot" type comments, and thought to myself; wonder what the pax would think? So, I let a few of the people I work with see some of the posts on this thread, and each one of them is now thoroughly frightened to fly and had some pretty choice remarks.

So the "complaining" is not just coming from the "old timer" pilots on this board, but could also be from the people that are riding in the back and are "clued in".