Truckflyer:
Cloudius - Well of course nobody got hired for years! However in the past I knew loads of father / son people employed by SAS, ok maybe not LOADS, but enough to raise my suspicion of their past hiring policies!
Of those I know, more than 50% got a no from SAS, so I guess their relations and acquaintances didnt help them much.
(In DY on the other hand, you really had to have some people on the inside putting in a recommendation).
And from what I know of the recruiting procedures, I genuinely believe that there is no reason to fear any unfair selection.
They also got themselves into a lost generation of pilots, as they simply have not hired anybody! Who would go to them, with no hope of command upgrade in the near future?
This I have not opposed to. However, that might change. I guess the outcome of SAS is two sided. Either the company goes belly up or the tide and restruction makes things happen very fast in terms of hire and upgrade.
We will just have to wait and see.