Originally Posted by
Lighteningspeed
British Airways, Lufthansa and Korean Airlines all have ab initio programs where a student interested in becoming an airline pilot can go through their program from zero experience to a full fledged FO upon completion of their training. We've never had anything close to it in this country.
well we kinda do.....while not official airline sponsored ab initio, look at all the 250-300 hour guys the regionals have hired who completed the programs at JetU, ATP, Riddle etc....that is zero experience to full fledged FO!