Originally Posted by FlyingOkra

You're looking from the outside in and at a limited sample.

Just 4 years ago every guy in my class at Spirit had over 8,000 TT and 5,000+ TPIC. Most were long time Regional Captains or guys with Heavy International experience (Ex-World, Evergreen and North American).

Now they have reduced the mins and started hiring a much less experienced candidate on average.

It's apparent that these two different types of candidate handle the SAME Spirit Training program with a very different success rate.