All this "blame the beancounters" is gross exaggeration. Every company I know is continually adding more training into their annual budget to cope with the never ending stream of new requirements. In a time when most airlines are struggling to stay profitable of course there is tension with the costs, but no-one is reducing training.
As for only allowing people into the industry based on passing aptitude tests, if you brought this in then the airlines would be short of pilots by about 30%. Do you want to see all the airlines closing due to lack of crews? Not to mention, of course, that that means facing the reality that some of us are in that 30%....
