Thanks
EPIRB and most (except the old b's) would agree with your -
Why would an employer get rid of a thirty year old A320 FO so they could train up a 63 year old ex 767 captain? It does not make economical sense these days
...unfortunately airline management seem to make decisions that are beyond the logical thinking of the average pilot - maybe THAT'S why so many airlines are going down the gurgler, or are in deep-serious 5h!t these days.....the
apparently wrong decisions WERE, in fact WRONG!!
Undoubtedly you DO need a "core" of experience (so that you don't start the learning curve from the bottom), and you need a gradient in the age group employed, so that you don't experience a sudden exodus, creating a vacuum hence causing a myriad of relatively inexperienced guys to be promoted out of their depths. Unfortunately that happened in THAT year, and the comments from the C&T in Virgin who have taken on Ansett pilots, indicate that there is a "
culture of inexperience that has been trained into them".
There WERE some good pilots who "went back" in 1989 - seek them out, and pick their brains, and let's hope we can see an ALL AUSTRALIAN Ansett rise from the ashes!!