At the risk of sounding elitist, one shouldn't be in the cockpit of an airliner conducting 121 operations until holding an ATP. Or in lieu of that, a single pilot, multi-eng, IFR letter. For 99% of all those people clamoring for that 1000hrs, there are plenty of SINGLE engined airplanes in which they wouldn't survive 3 times around the patch. Is that who we want flying OUR family? Inexperienced pilots are a huge liability to the entire industry. For all those 300 hour wonders waiting to flame me, talk to me after you've spent a couple of seasons flying part 135 in a Navajo for Ameriflight. Oh, wait, you don't have the hours for that.