The handling pilot started life in BA with exactly 200 hours, having graduated from from Oxford Air Training School.
I started in BOAC with 312 hours, ex-RAF trained N.S. pilot, and it was over 3 years before I even got near a pilots' seat again - aircraft had radio operators, flight engineers, navigators, as well as co-pilots in those days, and although I would have wished it differently at the time, in retrospect I was eventually well pleased that I had chance to 'learn my trade' watching all the other professionals as I quietly beavered away being employed as a navigator.