Originally Posted by
gringo
I'm sure that 2000 hours of flying CAP missions over Durka-Turkistan directly relates to skills and abilities in the 121 world, I'm equally certain that 5000, 7500 or 10,000 hours of flying an Airbus or Boieng incident free into LGA or ORD would also translate well into a well-rounded candidate.
Don't forget the fact that Spirit pilots are both domestic and international, AA is one or the other. Spit trains at high density altitude fields, no hand holding going places and the training for a PIC type is actually in the left seat unlike AA which is seat specific. Imagine getting 10 sims just in the right seat Iike AA does. Spirit's stupidest could make it through that.