Originally Posted by
TonyWilliams
Majors don't have to hire regional captains. 250 hour comm license will do, and just let the regionals stagnate. Voila, regional hiring problem solved.
This might be your wet dream but it ain't gonna happen.
Majors hire future Captains which means they want someone who has already proven they can do that job. Hence the normal PIC mins. UAL has already proven how bad an idea it is to hire min hour pilots when they got forced into it by lawsuits back in the '80s.