aviator3200, don't confuse cheap & young pilot with unsafe pilot!
Training standards (thanks to A-scalers like NSF and AdM
) are excellent, but someone who joined at 22 can be a captain before he/she's 30 and a training captain/TRE at 35.
The real problem for management (!) starts to arise when this 35 y.o training captain starts thinking about a family, a pension, private healthcare, part time etc.
That's when he/she becomes too expensive and this "number one asset" needs to be replaced by another (no doubt excellent) "number one asset" who joined a few years later on an even cheaper B, C, D, E, F-scale or Flexi-Crew contracts.
And so a perpetual game of musical chairs is being played in which they continually undermine and lower the T&C's in this industry, yet most participants are too hypnotized to realize because they are staring at the carrot that is dangled in front of them and desperately want to believe in the fairy tales of NSF and AdM.
I just read the shocking tale of ARNOLDJ! An absolute shame, but please Arnold, hang in there, because according to AdM "project Merlin" will change everything in a few years time.
"Change you can believe in...!
