However, with the general lack now of EXPERIANCED pilots i think you are going to start to see industry wide improvments in T+C's due to airlines being forced to "head hunt".
Not gonna happen soon. The market maker in Europe, ryanair, actively discourages experience as it costs. Wait til other airlines start to think they too can get by with bugger all experience. It's all maths. It's cheaper to pay everyone
all and loose a couple of aircraft than actually pay for safety.
And it's not just management, pilots too. Witness all the threads here that think that as long as people are trained properly, low experience doesn't matter.
Potkettleblack, your assessment is correct.
We're our own worst enemies and by the time we realise that (which everyone eventually does) it's too late, and anyway, I've yet to meet a wannabe who isn't convinced they know better than all the experienced pilots, that they will somehow have a different experience, so you're banging your head on a brick wall.
RIP professional pilot.