A friend of mine who works as a line training Captain on the Airbus has had the experience of a very inexperienced self-sponsored F/O bursting into tears upon arrival at the gate after a shoddy hand flown approach. It seems none of the other trainers in this particular company expected much more from the person sat in the RHS other than to have somebody physically sitting there with the right bits of stamped paper to fulfill the legal requirements. If this is not bad enough I have also heard stories of wide body jets being flown transatlantic with not only said inexperienced F/O's but also very inexperienced P1's. This is when operators start to become truly reckless with their passenger's safety. Fortunatly this particular airline had it's AOC pulled and went bankrupt before they killed anybody. Somewhere in the chain somebody has to take responsibility for maintaining standards (and be held accountable for this) and most importantly they should not be allowed to be influenced by economic factors (airline management).