If that were the case, the RAAF would not be entrusting our sophisticated fighter jets to pilots with less than 500 hours of flight experience," Mr Davis said in the statement.
RAAF ain't RPT.
Secondly the general standard of cadet would be significantly higher in the RAAF than in REX.
This would have a disastrous effect amongst small and regional operators as their pilot ranks would get plundered by the larger airlines as we saw in FY 2008 (fiscal year 2008,) when Rex lost half its pilots to the major airlines in one year.
Another selective Capitalist just like Geoff Dixon. Either you are in favour of free markets or you're not. You cannot pay low ball salaries for 40 years then when the market (ie the pilot labour market) turns against you start having a winge. Aviation is an unattractive career these days because of the high cost of entry and uncompetitive salaries. Rex may have to start doing something about that. Asian airlines pay their pilots to learn to fly.
To stay in operation, the smaller operators would have no choice but to accept pilots from general aviation, with sufficient minimum hours but who may not have the desired skill level to be an airline pilot, it said
Must be a miracle that Kendall and Hazo's survived for so long then.