Funnily enough I'm inclined to think that what should count
rather than hours in the air is the number of landings that
you've made...
I know that it doesn't fit the pecking order which is the
airline industry but I think that the real skills are demonstrated
in the approaches and departures rather than the cruise.
So I tend to rate commuter and biz jet pilot skills over the
long-haul peeps...simply because they are doing the harder
stuff relatively more often,
-- Andrew