Originally Posted by
cappt
Who are the lucky souls who get fly with them when they're at 300/100?
I am one of those "lucky souls". Some of these low hour pilots are brilliant, they seem to be on top on their game and you wouldn't know how inexperienced they are unless you asked. At the same time there are a few which you might want to give a boarding pass for 1A as they don't have a clue! The worst part is some airlines in Europe regularly promote first officers with 3000 hours, which is 3-3.5 years experience, then fly with a first officer with 300 hours. Although that is very low experience, from what I've seen its the long term first officers that you have to be careful of, there's usually a reason they are still in the right hand seat!
Unfortunately most airlines do not train to competency now days, they train to certification. As long as they have the legal paperwork they don't care.