Folks,
Haven't any of you read the post from the DCPPT of the Towers, the MPL is little more than a new name, and an amendment to ICAO Annex 1, to cover what has been going on since the early '60's.
Read and read again, it's fact !!
Isn't 50 years of experience and many thousands of pilots enough to show it works.
The retirement of BOAC/BEA Hamble graduates is now down to somewhere beyond 20 Course.
In all that wonderful European weather ( I wonder why that's where most of the CAT 111 installations and approaches are found, in numbers per square mile ??) 2-300 hours to start in the RHS (No, Not Richard Harold) is the rule, rather than the exception.
Same same Japan, Singapore and Malaysia for about as long, China more recently.
Tootle pip!!
PS: There is nothing stopping an airline hiring anybody, but they will certainly be hiring whoever they regard as best qualified, that might just be an MPL holder.