Originally Posted by
rickair7777
What they do is cheaper than paying for their pilots to accumulate real airplane time in general aviation. Or paying to attract experienced pilots from other parts of the world.
The safest airlines in the world are in the US with very few exceptions.
The best system would be to take experienced GA pilots and train them through the elaborate foriegn model. But that costs even more money. If the choice is between experienced pilots or pilots who can draw circuit diagrams of their avionics and teach graduate-level meteorology theory, I'll take the experience.
And I’ll take the pilot who was trained in an airline environment since the first hr, has 100+ hours of turbine time, usually over 100 hours of multi time, over the 1000 hour 172 CFI guy with 5 checkride busts who was never vetted for ability nor aptitude.
Not sure where you get your stats from. Top 20 safest airlines are all foreign, apart from a few US exceptions.