Jed A1,. .. .I don`t know of any pilot that was born experienced on an aircraft type. Neither do you I would think.. .. .I understand that you do not want to follow up on this, but; how do you see inexperienced pilots becoming experienced pilots if you do not give them a chance to gain...experience? And if an airline can maintain its safety standards by employing, what you call inexperienced pilots, in the cockpit, I cannot see why not. It could well be that the candidates selected for the pprune/Astraeus scheme are all experienced pilots. Not on the B737, off course, but as pilots in general. But again, this is not only a question about hours in a log book, is it. It`s about the candidate you select for a scheme like this. And honestly Jed A1, I have no doubt that the Astraeus ops. management have gone through the selection process very carefully.