Towers,
Do try to keep up you lot.
It's tough living in the best part of the world where there is actually competition for seats ...
MPL sucks. The Garuda prang shows just what will increasingly happen. I'd rather have an ex-bush-basher who has the guts to shake/thump me out of my dream than a "Captain, I say again..." MPL any day. As well as someone who might, because of his real-world experience, be able to take over and save the day (A320 x 2 into ocean, Flash 737 into ocean). An wet-eared MPL who has been put thru Alteon in BNE on an MPL will not be able to do that.
The MPL is a con. Of course Boeing supports it! If there ain't enough pilots, nobody will buy their jets! I can turn virtually anybody into a REAL airline pilot in a couple of months, provided they can fly. I don't need a MPL course to do that.