Woki
The current course apparently has a mixture of both direct entry with "experience" (for j3 that means people with ATPLs or have the pic/icus time to activate their atpls and who are just short of tt or night) and trainees that just have the bare cpl and ir. The majors are starting to hire with numbers of >200 in the next 12 months and are looking at the regionals for their source of pilots. The link must be sweating atm (or maybe not) as it's starting to look very bottom-heavy with inexperienced pilots who if the icus program isnt approved (and there are doubts that it ever will be) will be scrambling to find direct entry captains or face the inevitable of reducing schedules.
What about the guys who started in December (6 weeks ago); all of whom had well over 2000TT
hmmm eapilot where'd you get those dubious facts from?