Originally Posted by
DirectAnywhere
260 odd is apparently the target for the next training year.
At least 22 per month for the whole year then. Not sure the sim space will be available, training might have to be outsourced.
Originally Posted by
On Guard
but all agree,including female pilots, that it must be on merit not gender.
That’s the next can of worms, everyone’s definition of “merit” will be different. With evidence that the proportion of female applicants vs new hires is roughly similar then we can conclude that the system is recruiting on their standards of merit not gender.
What then happens (with a much larger number of applicants to those selected this is inevitable) there’ll be accusations that some were not selected on “merit”, or the criteria is skewed in favour of things women may naturally have an advantage in.
Truth is there have always been a far greater number of applicants than positions available, and most people make good pilots. So recruiters sometimes have to use what seem to be very strict criteria to cut the numbers down, and that may mean some people who would certainly have had a fantastic career in the airline fail to get in. Some may perceive that as women getting a job due to quotas, but it isn’t the case.