bat.man
I can appreciate the comments you make and the description of the good ole days of the airline industry and its training and career structure have some merit. What i cannot agree with is your championing of CTC training and then the rubbishing of todays training departments as some sort of justification. CTC does a good job at what it does, and provides opportunities to those who can meet its requirements but there are plenty of airlines whose training departments are full of very experienced training Captains with thousands of hours on many types and whose set up is far more professional and geared to the real world of line flying than CTC.
If you want to give CTC a pat on the back feel free and if you want to knock a particular airline's training dept ( if you have good cause and hard facts) knock yourself out, but don't tar us all with the same brush.
rgds