No MikeHotel, even I wasn't born with a thousand hours and for your information I am a zero hours type rated pilot myself. The reason behind this thread was to gauge how many airlines other than EZY and RYR have a clear preference for newbie pilots. You would agree that in the last 12 months, both EZY and RYR have taken on far more low hours / fresh out of school pilots than experienced ones. This is exploitation (as these two are clearly ignoring the wealth of experienced pilots out there so they can get away with selling !!!! deals with no job security, no choice of base etc), hence my comment.