And in my neck of the woods we have 60+ captains flying with 49 year old FO's…
Nice of you guys to remind us of all the award- and medal winning very young skippers of yore. But what's your point? Those were the cream of the crop. Which hardly can be said of the youngsters we're talking about here, who after all are being picked for command because nobody else is available.
Thank God the engineers at Airbus and Boeing are as brilliant and experienced as they are, and keep designing and building hyper safe aircraft that even dunces are hard pressed to drill into the ground.