.By saying one cadet means one less direct entry pilot , really just stating a fact not gloating, always difficult to determine tone from the written. Like most pax I just want well trained people in cockpit don't care what background.
Just talking to some of my pilot friends who are working at jetstar while on lwop from qantas, the cadets are struggling to make the appropriate standards. If there is a need to allocate cadets extra simulator time and you here the story of the cadet that raised the flaps when doing a go around and the cadet selecting the wrong flap setting on approach you would think surely a pilot that has previously been flying a turbo prop for a regional airline wouldn't make such silly mistakes and require extra simulator sessions.
But if cadets pilots are meeting the minimum safety standards, why aren't they being paid at the same rate as there direct entry colleagues? Because $30k difference in salary is a huge difference.