"onebyone" - I mention this, due to the fact of a post by Positivefeather earlier, pretty arrogant snob and full of BS, if that is the type of pilots SAS which to promote and have in their cockpit, than NO THANKS!
Positivefeather posted this:
"Tempting for SAS to hire the same contract pilots from DY now, for permanent positions?"
Tempting as it may, SAS run psychological tests on their candidates. Back in the days (70s, 80s), hundreds of pilots each year would give up their career simply because they would not get a job, and let us be honest; many a pilot have not had the intellectual/psychological skills needed, only a vast dream and money from dad..
Today "low cost" carriers have discovered this and hence are offering all these pilots that otherwise flunk psychological tests with the majors, a job as long as they accept to pay for the rating/their uniform and on we go..
That is the reason we are in this situation. Earlier these pilots would never have been hired, today they can purchase their "jobs".
Pretty soon the sharpest tools in the shed will never consider a pilot education as these pilots cannot compete with the otherwise academically lower skilled candidates who seem to never run out of money.