The reason......? Too many Fast Commands, Too many Fast Trackers, Too many youngsters who's ability to fly an aircraft are in no doubt but whose life experiences are probably not quite up to speed yet
Rubbish.
BOAC was putting people on the 707 from the day they joined over 40 years ago, and their successors have successfully done so since.
What this industry has is an ability to attract unsuitable candidates who are capable neither in the jet nor the Cessna instructional role, whose services are required due to growth in air transport, and are freely available since they have self-selected themselves and paid for their own training, where in the past they might have instead been rejected outright for sponsored training, and better performers now cannot afford it or move to the city, where the economics make sense.
Where the instructional route contains some stars, it also contains some berks who should never be in the air at all.
I expect the berk who placed this advert will never get a job due to an attitude that he/she has expressed, which is inappropriate in airline ops. Not too dissimilar from the berk in the letters page of the Log this month...