During the 90's as CTC was being set up there was a view amongst the big airlines (in the UK) such as Britannia, that the supply of Pilots coming from the self improver route (those guys who'd got 700 hours instructing, converted to CPL then built 1000 hours multi-engine in general aviation and then done 1500 hours turbo-prop in the likes of Channel Express) was not what they needed. They believed that these experienced self improvers had not received the structured training including Airline style SOP's and Procedures which were offered by Oxford and Perth during their abbreviated CPL course (200 hours).
CTC was a band of Airline trainers who chose to exploit and propogate this myth to make themselves significant profit, they have been very successful.
Since the 90's though the grounds on which this myth was based no longer exists. Pilots generally, including those experienced in General Aviation and in Smaller Airlines have all received the required structured Airline training.
If it was not for the profits generated by recruiting the inexperienced youth through Pay to fly schemes or CTC's exploitative branding then the correct People would be hired into the likes of Easyjet or Ryanair, those F/O's with appropriate experience.
As the Law has changed in the U.S. to raise experience required in the right seat as a result, I believe, of the Colgan Air disaster no lesson has been learn't in Europe because of the powerful Lobbies of the training organisations and the LOCO's. Unfortunately it will take a disaster of our own to give the administrators the leverage which they need to change the Law in Europe.