If I can clarify:
Lets call a spade a spade, prior to Ansett's collapse, were not the vast majority of Virgin's low / nil jet time pilots AN and QF rejects?
Only a question as irrespective of whether or not it is true most of them are way ahead of where I was after 2 years at AN, let alone 9.
Just goes to show, aviation has little to do with experience or ability and a lot to do with luck.