Originally Posted by
Purpleanga
You make it sound as if being a CFI is mandatory, when in actuality has nothing to do with what you're going to be doing at the airline. Yea being a CFI will come in handy when you upgrade but there are many forms of PIC experience. It's all up to the individual to be successful. Plenty of CFI and non CFI guys out there and they both do a good job.
Wasn't really making the point that CFI's are better pilots. I personally think being a CFI really doesn't help much at all besides getting better at seeing things before they happen.
My point was just general experience, and when you graduate from a 141 school with 250 hours, pretty much the only way to build that general experience is to CFI, unless you get lucky and land a gig elsewhere.
My main point was that these first few through all pretty much meet the standard minimums anyway. We wont really know how it goes until the fresh 250Hour guys starting hitting the training.