But then again, as demand for flight schools will instantly plummet where should one find his first job? Crop dusting
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No. Instructing. That’s how many people cut their teeth pre-JAR. They used to do this work with a PPL, but JAR made it an aerial work assignment requiring a CPL, hence the reduction in hours required. This brought the licence into alignment with the rest of the world. Presumably the schools will do well selling all of those instructor courses as they indeed they used to. Other aerial work jobs could be found bush flying in Africa and light aircraft flying in the Far East. That is why it’s a 250 hour licence. A licence you can do at pretty much your own pace and wherever you want to do it. It never was designed to be a shoehorn into a jet airliner.
you want to fly an airliner with 200 hours? Well, it was possible 50 years ago too!