Dad, as you only drive them, please stop your remarks, as mine are not ment for you.
Giving me animal names and comparing me with your pet is exactly the lack of CRM you show with your other remark, that you threaten me to destroy me during our future sim session.
This is exactly what upsets me in this so called "shortage". Traditional -mainly Asian - carriers think that experience is more important than character. Believe me, I am known to be very team oriented in a simulator. Especially KAL doesn't have the reputation to hire CRM oriented people, to put it mildly.
I'm 100% sure that most of the young, enthusiast medium jet driver in the LCC environment would be perfectly capable of doing that job, and they would do it at least as good as the grey-haired near-retired guys they are looking after so desperatly.
And why shouldn't the medium jet pilots not be capable, since every career airline does exactly the same: Transition them from a medium to a heavy jet. I haven't jet heard that any experienced med jet driver in a major airline had any problem in this phase.
Over and out - I wont "bark" anymore until I don't hear any new valuable arguments.
Dani