I imagine a room full of application piles. Some yes, no or pending. 3 months down the track the pile of pending is ever growing and waiting for the attention of somebody to investigate. Then a ground school is scheduled so we just take 20 off the yes pile please. And still the pending pile waits.
In the end it will take more people and money to go through the maybes. So then we reduce the criteria of which the previous people applied under, and push them through instead. An easy fix I guess.
I simply cannot understand any company knocking back experienced people who are clearly suited to the position, to me it just doesn't make sense.
Mr Seatback 2 in my opinion your rejection is the result of a faulty system. QF's loss my friend.