Yeah, in general I would concur with your statement based on my experience at the Frontier interview. The 6 dudes that got hired that day were, in general, not currently competitive at a legacy carrier with one exception. Now, don't get me wrong, I think all the guys offered the job that day were quality, good dudes, they just didn't have the turbine PIC time. The one exception had 10k+ total and 7.5k+ turbine PIC, but he really, really wanted to live in Denver and did not want to wait for UAL to get him there years from now.

I guess the F9 interview team flagged my application as possibly competitive with the legacy carriers and they honed in on that with me. (see my previous posts earlier in this thread about this topic).