Originally Posted by
tom11011
Perhaps the single most important question of all:
Why did Bryan Bedford at one time require pilots to have 1500 hours of total time before they could be interviewed for a job?
When you have no trouble attracting pilots over 1500TT due to the market being flooded with pilots, setting the highest minimum experience requirements possible does a lot to reduce your insurance costs. The RAA and airlines sure won't say that pilots with less flight time are less safe, and they're really pushing this "quality" (coming from where?) over quantity thing, but insurance companies sure do care about flight time. Staff your airline with nothing but 250TT right seaters and your insurance costs are going to go through the roof.
One could assume it also helps in training costs to hire more experienced pilots.
But when you no longer can fill classes, that 1500TT doesn't become so important anymore.