Would you rather have someone with 6000 hours in the right seat next to you, or someone who just scrapes 2500 hours who happened to have flown a Boeing or Airbus...
In a Boeing or Airbus?
Seriously, option 2.
But the reality is neither- I want someone well trained and sharp who knows what he is doing, and the young guys coming in with time doing bulk sectors around Europe meet that in spades.
As i stated, the quality might even be sufficient! But as i stated as well, we can't bitch about no pay increase if we implicitly support a drop in initial qualifications. Because you can always adapt the influx to what you are prepared to pay!!!!!!
So be careful what you wish for or what you defend!
I didn't say I support it- I am just not prepared to lie and say the current recruits aren't good pilots- they are. The current pass-rate and rates of extra training required (little to none) evidence that.