Originally Posted by
BlueBlood
I hope that is a joke if not mind your own business.
Spirit hired guys with 250hr just few years ago and I heard they were the cockiest less prepared pilot to ever fly for an airline. A pain in the rear to work with them.
Absolutely not true. I have flown with a few of them, and I can tell you they had better knowledge and piloting skills than a lot of so called "experienced" pilots. Flying 1500 hours towing banners, or coming from some shady cargo airlines does not necessarily produce better results.
However, I will not deny that this could change the shape of our career, as they will not feel the hardship that we might have had to get where we are.
Other examples of such practice in the rest of the world (europe) just shows that it weakens unions, but doesn't really produce worse pilots.
Picking on these guys to justify the will to fight for our career is not the way to go.