Originally Posted by 742Dash

Bingo.

It is not the 500 hour new hires, it is the Captains who were 500 hour new hires 3 years go. And the "senior" Captains who are anything but.

The travesty is that this is not an industry wide problem. However the regionals with seasoned crews and healthy cultures are being crushed by the major airlines never ending push to find the lowest cost operators.