Well, cereal box license is a term us euro guyes sometimes use, because it easier to optain an FAA license, than an european one.
The reason is that the US carriers pay for a lot of the training when a pilot starts with the company. In europe some of that training is done at the pilots expense. One is not better that the other.
I don't know about SAS, but I always heard that it is a excelent airline. Are you sure it not just sour grapes because you are not flying for them ? 12 years to upgrade sounds impossible, because all of europes airlines have recruited extensively during the past 4-5 years..are you sure. How about Marsk, is that the same?
Enjoy
[This message has been edited by Nite_Flite (edited 26 August 2000).]