Some of you are amazing.
You get an airline that is prepared to hire across the entire spectrum of experience and you whinge!
The NORM as some put it - isn't 1200 hr girlies. The norm is that there is no norm!!
The recruits joining DJ are from a wide cross section of experience.
When AN fell over last year many many experienced turboprop and jet guys/gals got a start. In amongst that lot were people with heaps of medium/heavy jet hours, and people with nothing but light piston twin time.
Since then the mix has remained about the same - the only thing that changes is the ratio...
what would you all prefer. DJ hires all inexperienced people as F/O's and kept them there forever - hiring direct entry foreigners to fill the command vacancies - or hire a mix of people - some that can be promoted reasonably quickly and some that will need a number of years as F/O's to gain the exposure.
There are plenty of 1200 hours pilots out there that could fly rings around some of the more experienced people - I fly with some people that have heaps of hours and quite frankly they couldn't fly a magic carpet - you fly with others with significantly less experience and they are excellent.
It isn't the number of hours it is the person....
And at the end of the day if you don't like it don't apply