Bail Out,
Airlines, most of them anyway, are in business to shift passengers from A to B, Training Providers are in business to provide training.
Line training provided by the airline is provided as a legal requirement, perhaps 20 sectors, to get it out of the way as soon as possible and get on with what the pilot is there for, shifting passengers.
An airline, normally, wouldn't have the capacity of training staff to provide unecessary (by law) training and that's not what they're in business for. Training providers however are in business to provide training thus should have the training staff to facilitate this.
There appears to be a misconception that when an airline advertises for experienced pilots they are directing this advert to the wannabee's thus putting these guys in the position whereas they are expected to buy hours.
This is not the case, as in any business, previous experience is preferred and these airlines would preferably like guys with 1,000's of hours experience and perhaps want a career change/advancement.
Such are current market conditions they perhaps cannot source such guys thus are reducing their minima below 500 hours to perhaps 200 hours on type but they remain advertising for experience.
If a wannabee can put him/herself into this category by buying time then that is a decision/risk for them to make and take but, such airlines are not raising their criteria for wannabee's, they're reducing their criteria for experienced and the two should not be confused.
Market conditions haven't dictated yet that they need to take guys with zero hours on type but if they did need to take such guys then they'd prefer to arrange the type-rating training themselves, perhaps partly through a financial interest but moreso to enable them to oversee the training of the guy they're going to let loose with their aeroplane(s).
Just to reitterate, this refers to airlines who advertise for experience and not airlines who advertise for wannabees prepared to fork-out on a type rating.
Last edited by Phileas Fogg; 15th Nov 2004 at 17:12.