Pay as you go
Reminds me of the 'J.O. specials' at the now defunct Charlan Air. These boys were paying thousands of drinking coupons to J.O. for a couple hundred hours on the EMB 120's. Sounded like a great idea for the cash strapped airline. The only snag was when all 3 captains decided to resign in the same time period, the airline had no crew to upgrade to P1. They then got some South American guys in on contract at the same price of a small European countries GDP and went bang... This obviously wasn't the main reason they went down the tubes, but I'm sure it was one of them.
Lets hope other carriers see this pitfall and take heed. I for one want the guy/gal sitting to my right to be there because he/she earned it, not because of their dad's cheque book.