Training department is seriously worried about what?????
The intakes I know of personally of in the last 12 months for both FO and SO positions included: 2 A320 Captains with serious jet command time, 4 A320 FO's with again big jet time, 1 767 Captain with 7000 hrs on type, 1 767 FO with 4 years on type, 1 L1011 RAF Captain who also held the rank of squadron leader, 1 747 FO with 3000 hrs on type, 2 RAF Roulettes instructors, 3 767 FO's from Britannia Germany......and the list goes on.
Just how does this compare to the experience levels of the intakes of SO's from 1996-2000 who held Cessna/Beech Baron and Navaho ratings on entry. Granted the GA guys may have been outstanding but please cut the crap. The training department has never had higher quality applicants to work with on the whole for the last 10 years as a result of the downturn in the industry worldwide and our short sighted union insisting that no one come to CX....what a joke.
Obviously AACE you are no trng Captain hence your "intelligence" is somewhat off the ball.