Perhaps a few of our European/UK management types in the airline industry there might like to reconsider the modus operande regarding very low time First Officers, and their use on passenger carrying revenue flights.
Well, he would be shocked to find quality airlines such as BA, BOAC, Air France, Lufthansa, KLM and Iberia have all trained cadet pilots safely for many years.
He might also be more shocked to find that junior fast jet pilots carrying live weapons may frequently have fewer than 500 hours total flying experience.
Quality, not quantity is the name of the game.
Problem with today's environment is that every single operator thinks they are quality and treats regulation limits as an operational goals rather than limits that should be well-avoided - ranging from flight time limitations to minimum training time.
Of course, the
real carriers who use cadet pilots allow their training teams discretion to fly more circuits on base training / more sim sessions etc. When you pay to fly, you don't have that luxury...
It is far easier for a pilot with extensive single pilot experience to transition to jet multicrew ops, than it is for a magenta wunderkind to revert back to raw data/ basic instrument flying sans automation when things go off the rails.
There are many exceptions to that broad statement...