Why all the "200 hr boy wonder" bashing?
KLM gets the majority of their new pilots from their own 200-ish hour flights school and has always done so
Lufthansa same story, mostly 200 hr cadets
British Airways same story to a large degree.
Are these airlines not as safe as airlines that require recruits to race around in a cessna for 1500 hours?
Let's not forget that military aviators generally start with no experience. A USAF pilot graduates Undergraduate Pilot Training with 250 hours and an assignment to transition to some very sophisticated equipment. At a few hundred hours total time, that pilot can be operating supersonic tactical aircraft solo with more firepower on board than the entire second world war, and can fly that aircraft with no assistance to minimums on an approach, without the help of an autopilot.
Hours mean nothing. Experience, on the other hand, including one's training experience, means a hell of a lot.