And herein lies the problem with hiring cadets. I believe that REX are in the same predicament. Whereas when you hire guys with some experience to start with they can then upgrade to command after a 2 year period as they by now have 3000-4000 total and will normally have the desired 500 ME command. A cadet who has been the same company for the same period of time only has half that experience and wouldn't have 500 multi command. Whilst hiring cadets is not all bad I certainly wouldn't want to be running a company where basically all my FO were cadets as that leaves the company very exposed if you lost many captains in a short period of time......but of course the managers of all these outfits have everything under control I'm sure.