Springbokflyer
Don't worry about what slamer says, he's just another of those who have swallowed the brochure and probably never ventured outside these shores.
He doesn't get that just one of those trips to Majorca exposes a pilot to busier airspace and more technical challenges than any the ANZ pilots he reveres so much are ever likely to see. Nothing hard about joining the queue into LHR or LAX.
He doesn't get that hours are irrelevant when most of them have been gained instructing or piloting some dodgy old twin around doing charters.
And as for "more experience, time, ratings and other quals than you do"... well I doubt it, but even if that were so... so what? What does that mean in real life?
The "New Zealand experience" thing is just a device to keep foreign or returning Kiwi pilots out. There is NOTHING in NZ flying that is not common in Europe or the States, in fact flying in and around the Alps (the real ones) is far more demanding and specialised than anything over here.
What springbokflyer145 is saying is completely correct. The only people who believe the crap that slamer is spouting are those who have never been there and never done that.