The pilots that joined Lion Air through the likes of MSD, EJ, CFA where all taken on before the 250 hour rule came in to affect. the LT contracts have been out of action for a good year now.
Lion are only taking on Indo nationals as cadet pilots.
I personally think this was a nice opportunity for the people that could afford to do it. aviation is such a hard industry to get that 1st foot in the door and I am sure this program granted a lot of peoples dreams to come true. surely that is a good thing, but as I have learnt along my career path pilots tend to be very selfish sods and god forbid something good happen to a fellow pilot, not the case with my thinking I wish everyone all the best in the skies, that's just my airmanship! as to how you got there, I don't care if your passing your OPC checks and working hard that's fine with me, lets build a safer skies together.
I remember the first time I flew a big jet and its a magical feeling.
As mentioned above the program stopped now so I don't know what all the ill feeling is about.