DeltaSix
The reason why I say it won’t make any difference is very simple. Airlines need to draw from the widest possible cross-section of the aviation community to keep pressure on wages and conditions. As soon as you start excluding a group it artificially restricts supply and puts upward pressure on wages and conditions. The bean counters in airlines won’t allow this and will continue to require their recruitment departments to not exclude any group as long as they can do the job. MPL’s will simply replace the conventional cadet pilot training that currently occurs because it will be cheaper. Lastly there appears to be the misconception that the airlines will do the MPL training. They won’t. Airlines aren’t in the flying school business with the exception of maybe SQ. Just as cadet training is farmed out to the flying school industry, so will the MPL training. Airlines will have an input as to what is taught but only as far as sponsored MPL Cadet courses go. Self sponsored will be just like and other pilot training course. The type of sims used will most likely be some sought of business jet or regional jet to keep the cost down. It could even be some sought of generic sim. Once the MPL training is done the freshly licensed pilots will then go off to their respective airlines where they will be endorsed on the aircraft they will fly on the line. Again this is no different to what currently happens with cadets.